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  2. The Dam Busters (book) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Paul Brickhill - Wikipedia

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    Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 1916 – 23 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war, and author who wrote The Great Escape, The Dam Busters, and Reach for the Sky. Early life

  4. The Dam Busters (radio serial) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The Great Escape (radio serial) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Escape is a 1954 Australian radio serial by Morris West based on the novel by Paul Brickhill produced by Gordon Grimsdale. Grimsdale and West also did radio adaptations of Brickhill's books The Dam Busters and Reach for the Sky. [2] [3] The three were all recorded in Sydney, where West had moved following the end of his first marriage ...

  6. The Dam Busters - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. The Dam Busters (film) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Barnes Wallis - Wikipedia

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    The raid on these dams in May 1943 (Operation Chastise) was immortalised in Paul Brickhill's 1951 book The Dam Busters and the 1955 film of the same name. The Möhne and Eder dams were successfully breached, causing damage to German factories and disrupting hydro-electric power.

  9. Operation Chastise - Wikipedia

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    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.