Attack on the Sorpe by Ivan Berryman. SIG1002C 17th February 1943

17th February 1943

Robert Taylor has brought to life an encounter over Rabaul in late December 1943

in what would turn out to be the last Christmas of the war

Convinced that he had trapped Jackson

Attack on the Sorpe by Ivan Berryman. SIG1002C 17th February 1943B0420. Attack on the Sorpe by Ivan Berryman. McCarthy's aircraft, ED825(G) AJ T attacking the undefended Sorpe Dam with the village in the background and the church with the steeple that they had to avoid on the hilltop. Such was the difficulty of the approach to this dam attacked along its length in contrast to the other dams which were attacked perpendicular to the dam McCarthy needed to make a total of ten runs before the bomb was dropped