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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.
Nigger died on 16 May 1943, the day of the famous "Dambusters" raid, when he was hit by a motorist. He was buried at midnight as Gibson was leading the raid. "Nigger" (Morse code: -. .. --. --. . .-. ) was the codeword Gibson used to confirm the breach of the Möhne Dam. Nigger's grave is at Royal Air Force station Scampton, Lincolnshire. [1]
Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History. Virgin Books. ISBN 978-1-905264-33-9. – first hand accounts of the planning, preparation and execution of the raid. Ashworth, Chris (1989). Encyclopaedia of Modern Royal Air Force Squadrons. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-013-6. Bouquet, Tim 617 Going to War with Today's Dambusters ...
The mess hall was used by those involved in Operation Chastise, one of the most well-known operations of the Second World War.
"The Dam Busters March", the theme to the 1955 film by British composer Eric Coates; The Dam Busters, a 1984 video game loosely based on Operation Chastise "Dambusters", a 2011 episode of Ice Pilots NWT Season 3 about recreating Operation Chastise; VFA-195 (U.S. Navy), a United States Navy fighter squadron
Birnbeck Pier partially collapsed in 2015 during Storm Frank
West Lindsey District Council says a decision to use land at the disused RAF Scampton – where the Dambusters were based – should be quashed.