chastise

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At the time, she had no idea who they were – but soon one of them would be famous around the world as the leader of Operation Chastise, better known as the Dambusters raid.

From BBC • May 5, 2025

Mr. Johnson served with the RAF’s celebrated 617 Squadron and was a sergeant at the time of the “Dambuster” raid — Operation Chastise — which began before dawn on May 17, 1943.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022

Braving antiaircraft fire, the squadron, based at Scampton, north of London, breached Germany’s Eder and Mōhne dams and damaged the Sorpe Dam in what was formally known as Operation Chastise.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022

Johnson was a 21-year-old bomb aimer on the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, by the Royal Air Force’s famed 617 Squadron.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2022

They have performed innumerable and astonishing exploits against their much-hated Enemies, the Insolence of whose Rovers they continue to Restrain and Chastise, except when the Rovers, as sometimes happens, get the better of 'em.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus