Guy Gibson - Memorial

Memorial

The town of Steenbergen has since honoured Gibson and Warwick by naming a street after each of them (Gibsonstraat and Warwickstraat); as well as after the Lancaster and the Mosquito. The Gibsonstraat and Warwickstraat meet on the exact location of the fatal crash; the location of which is marked by a brick mosaic of the British flag. Gibson's grave is located in Steenbergen en Kruisland R.C. Churchyard, the Netherlands.

The station Headquarters building at RAF Hemswell still stands, on what is now a commercial trading estate and is named Gibson House. Gibson's office is latterly being used as a computer software business.

Barnes Wallis said of Gibson:

For some men of great courage and adventure, inactivity was a slow death. Would a man like Gibson ever have adjusted back to peacetime life? One can imagine it would have been a somewhat empty existence after all he had been through. Facing death had become his drug. He had seen countless friends and comrades perish in the great crusade. Perhaps something in him even welcomed the inevitability he had always felt that before the war ended he would join them in their Bomber Command Valhalla. He had pushed his luck beyond all limits and he knew it. But that was the kind of man he was…a man of great courage, inspiration and leadership. A man born for war…but born to fall in war.

"Bomber" Harris described him as "As great a warrior as this island ever bred".

Porthleven has a Street called Gibson Way named after Gibson, and also in the village cemetery is a memorial bearing his name, which also appears on the village War Memorial overlooking the harbour.