The reasons I have written a new book about Operation Chastise, as the RAFĬhristened it, is that in the 60-odd years since I first saw the movie, I haveĬome to understand how much we then believed, which was wrong. Was victimless, save for fifty-three dead among the young men who made theīaggage that has become associated with the offensive against Germany’s cities. The story seemed to reflect a heroism that Michael Redgrave played the bomb’s inventor, engineer Barnes Wallis. Matinee idol Richard Todd portrayed Gibson Of my generation, I grew up embracing the legend, my enthusiasm sparked by Paulīrickhill’s 1951 book, then fanned into ecstasy by Michael Anderson’s 1955 The Dam Busters, most popular British Group of historically based tales- like King Arthur, or Robin Hood- which defy Written: ‘The story of 617 Squadron’s breaching of the dams has joined that Wing-Commander Guy Gibson’s biographer has These memories of Operation Chastise, the RAF’s ‘bouncing bomb’ attack which burst Germany’s Mohne and Eder reservoirs on the night of 16/, cling to the consciousness of millions of people who may not know much else about the Second World War. There were dams a dog with an embarrassing name a march that everybody over 40 can hum.
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