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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.
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 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 ...
"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
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.
John Hopgood was born on 29 August 1921 in Hurst, Berkshire, to solicitor Harold Hopgood and his second wife Grace.Harold's first wife Beatrice had died in 1918. John was the middle of three children from this second marriage (in addition to a half brother and sister from the first) and was educated at Marlborough College.
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 ...
Squadron Leader George Leonard Johnson MBE DFM (25 November 1921 − 7 December 2022), better known as Johnny Johnson, was a British Royal Air Force officer who was the last surviving original member of No. 617 Squadron RAF and of Operation Chastise, the "Dambusters" raid of 1943.