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The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, that was directed by Michael Anderson.Adapted by R. C. Sherriff from the books The Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson, the film depicts the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe ...
Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, [1] [2] was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special bouncing bombs developed by Barnes Wallis.
A large collection of memorabilia commemorating the man who led the famous Dambusters raid has been sold at auction. The sale of 54 lots, including items that belonged to Wing Cdr Guy Gibson ...
The Dam Busters, a 1951 book by Paul Brickhill about Operation Chastise The Dam Busters, a 1955 film about based on the book The Dam Busters March, the theme to the film by British composer Eric Coates; The Dam Busters, a 1984 video game loosely based on Operation Chastise
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The movie is a blast for the same reasons the original was — a killer committed performance from genre-king Butler and exciting, white-knuckle action/heist sequences, and the tension between Big ...
The Dam Busters is a combat flight simulation game set in World War II and published by U.S. Gold. It was released in 1984 for ColecoVision and Commodore 64; in 1985 for Apple II, MS-DOS, MSX, and ZX Spectrum; then in 1986 for the Amstrad CPC and NEC PC-9801. It is loosely based on Operation Chastise and the 1955 film.
The Dam Busters is a 1951 non-fiction book by Paul Brickhill about Royal Air Force 617 Squadron originally commanded by Wing Commander Guy Gibson V.C. during World War II.The squadron became known as the "Dam Busters" because of Operation Chastise, a mission using highly specialised bombs to destroy Ruhr dams in Germany.