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To mark 80 years since D-Day and Operation Taxable, the RAF Benevolent Fund, the RAF’s leading welfare charity, has launched the Tin Foil Aeroplane Challenge.
As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, it is important to pay tribute to the brave airmen of RAF Bomber Command who lost their lives in the fight for freedom.
To mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day this June, Roy Eaton shares a guest blog about his uncle Len Eaton, a Wireless Operator who served as part of Operation Taxable and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for completing 50 Operations.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, GHQ Spirits has launched a limited-edition Scottish rum, vodka and gin range to raise money for the Fund and other Service charities.
On Thursday 6 June, the RAF Honington Golf Team will be taking on a 72-hole Golf Challenge to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Operation Taxable was a key component of the broader deception plan, known as Operation Bodyguard, carried out by the Allies during the D-Day landings in June 1944. It is considered one of the most intricate and successful deception campaigns in military history.
To mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day this year, RAF Benevolent Fund ambassadors went head-to-head with other Armed Forces veterans in a D-Day special episode of the BBC’s Bargain Hunt.
Sergeant Lee Wrake joined the RAF at the age of 19. On 6 June 1944 he landed on Omaha Beach, and after saving a man who was hit in the stomach, he himself was hit in the chest by shrapnel.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Dambusters Raid.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Dambusters Raid, retired veteran Graham Copsey, took on the Dambusters Ride in Lincolnshire on the 13 May to raise money for the RAF’s leading welfare charity, the RAF Benevolent Fund.