earlb

You need time to read this - It's the War Office record of a blow by blow account on the Dam raids. It reads like a 'Boys Own' adventure - But it's for real - It is History.

http://www.dambusters.org.uk/docs/recordbook.pdf

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Kevev

If only they still made movies like this. Then again the PC brigade would probably not allow it. I guess it would be deemed too 'english' and likely to offend the rest of the world?

m35541

The 2007 BBFC Annual Report has an interesting para on The Damnbusters in which the BBFC discuss the appropriaetness of its U certificate given the name of the dog.

penfold

It would offend most of the Commonwealth if it was too English....more than half of the crews were Canadian, Aussies and New Zealanders. And at least one Yank.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

cooleyn

Thanks for posting this - much appreciated!

Freddy

Robin Gibb was on the Daily Politics show earlier in the week. He was there as President of the Heritage Foundation and was talking of Bomber Command and the fact that there is no memorial to them even though more than 55,000 died. Nearly all were young volunteers aged between 18 and 22. The Heritage foundation is raising funds so that a memorial can be built.

Ian Duncan Smith who was there as well added that those who died were some of the brightest young men, engineers and technicians of that generation which after the war ended, contributed to the decline of Britain as an industrial base.

Regards

Freddy

"What I owe you Colonel Lawrence, is beyond evaluation."