| GUYGIBSON | British wing commander who led the Dambusters Raid in May 1943 (3,6) |
| DEWET | Afrikaner commander who led the Orange Free State army during the Second Boer War (2,3) |
| RUHR | German river valley that was the target of the Dambusters Raid (16-17 May 1943) during World War II (4) |
| CHASTISE | Operation , codename for the Dambusters Raid on Germany in 1943 (8) |
| BOMBS | Specially designed ones were developed for Operation Chastise (May 1943) (5) |
| GIBSON | Commanding officer of the 'Dambusters' raid during the Second World War (6) |
| GUY | RAF wing commander who led Operation Chastise, later known as the Dam Busters, raid in 1943 (3,6) |
| IDOMENEUS | Cretan commander who led his armies into the Trojan War |
| BARNES | ____ Wallis, British engineer who invented the bouncing bomb used in the 1943 Dambusters Raid (6) |
| MONSARRAT | Naval lieutenant commander who wrote the 1951 novel The Cruel Sea |
| BUCHAREST | Caught with speed during drug raid in European city |
| EDAM | Dutch town seen in The Dambusters |
| TODD | Richard _, Irish actor who played Wing Commander Guy Gibson in the 1955 film The Dam Busters (4) |
| CAPTAIN | Officer holding commissioned rank in the RAF who is senior to a wing commander but |
| HARRIETTUBMAN | Spy who led the Combahee River Raid in the American Civil War |
| GROUP | and 18 Officer holding commissioned rank in the RAF who is senior to a wing commander junior to an a |
| AIRFORCE | Branch of the military in the UK whose ranks include squadron leader and wing commander (3,5) |
| RICHARD | Actor whose film roles include Wing Commander Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters (7,4) |
| SCHEER | Reinhard, German naval commander who was commander-in-chief at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 (6) |
| NELSON | Horatio ___, British naval commander who died in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar (6) |
