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It was based on the book The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill. West and Grimsdale also did radio adaptations of Brickhill's books The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky. [2] [3] West wrote these after relocating to Sydney from Melbourne following the end of his first marriage. [4] A number of the cast had served in the airforce during World War ...
Brickhill was born in Melbourne, Victoria to journalist George Russell Brickhill (1879–1965) and Izitella Victoria (née Bradshaw) Brickhill (1885–1966). [2] He was the third son of the couple's five children, the others being Russell (1911–2002), Ayde Geoffrey (1914–), Lloyd (1918–2011), and Clive (1923–2009). [ 3 ]
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.
The Dam Busters, a 1951 book by Paul Brickhill about Operation Chastise; The Dam Busters, a 1955 film about Operation Chastise, based on Paul Brickhill's eponymous 1951 book "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
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.
The Dambusters reformed on 18 April 2018, and was equipped at RAF Marham in June 2018 with the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning, becoming the first squadron to be based in the UK with this advanced STOVL type. The unit is composed of both RAF and Royal Navy personnel, [3] and operates from the Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers ...
The son of Howard Huntley Shannon and Phoebe Madeline (née Watson), David John Shannon was born on 27 May 1922 at Unley Park, South Australia.His father was an auctioneer who went on to serve as a South Australian state parliamentarian from 1933 to 1968; his grandfather, John Wallace Shannon, had been a state parliamentarian from 1896 to 1902, and a Federal senator from 1914 to 1920.