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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	LS/940.544941
Title	The High Peak Dambuster: Sergeant Jack Marriott DFM.
Date	2022
Publication Date	2022
Author	Pleszak, Frank
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
ISBN	9781399097468
Abstract	Operation Chastise, the audacious attack on the dams in the Ruhr valley, is one of the most famous airborne attacks in history. During the night of 16th/17th May 1943, 133 men in nineteen specially-adapted Lancasters - the famous Dambusters - set off to attack six dams deep in the heart of Germany. Eight of the bombers, and 56 of the aircrew, did not come home. Flight Lieutenant Bill Astell, the pilot of ED864 who hailed from Coombs near Chapel-en-le-Frith, was killed after flying into electricity pylons on the way to the dams. The navigator in ED924, Sergeant John Nugent, from Stoney Middleton, survived the Dambusters Raid but was killed later in the war. The third High Peak Dambuster, on whom this biography concentrates, is the little-known Sergeant Jack Marriott from Chinley, the flight engineer on Lancaster ED937 during the attack.
Term	Second World War (1939-1945)