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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 often accompanied Gibson on training flights [1] and was a great favourite of the members of both 106 and 617 Squadrons. He was noted for his liking of beer, which he drank from his own bowl in the Officers' Mess. [2] Nigger died on 16 May 1943, the day of the famous "Dambusters" raid, when he was hit by a motorist. He was buried at ...
The Dam Busters is a 1954 Australian radio serial written by Morris West and produced by Gordon Grimsdale. [1]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.
"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
Air Commodore John Emilius Fauquier, DSO & Two Bars, DFC (19 March 1909 – 3 April 1981) was a Canadian aviator and Second World War Bomber Command leader. He commanded No. 405 Squadron RCAF and later No. 617 Squadron RAF (the Dambusters) over the course of the war.
JACKSON TWP. – Eric Paliswat made sure he was one of the first 200 people Friday to get into the newly "reimagined" Dave & Buster's. The Dallas-based arcade, sports bar and restaurant chain ...
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 ...