The Dambusters - Gibsons attack
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2012
- From the 1955 classic war movie 'The Dambuster's. Wing Commander Guy Gibsons Lancaster crew attacks the Mohne dam while under fire from the dams defences. The late actor Richard Todd, who portrays Wing Commander Gibson in this movie, was himself a veteran of WW2, having taken part in the capture of Pegasus bridge in the early hours of D-Day, as a member of the Parachute Regiment. Todd would go on to star in the movie 'The Longest day', playing the part of Major John Howard - the man who led the actual assault on Pegasus bridge who, in real life, Todd met during his wartime assault on the bridge itself.
R.I.P Richard Todd. You were one of Britains finest actors. To me, you will always be Wing Commander Guy Gibson! - บันเทิง
Guy Gibson died aged just 26, he sacrificed his life for us. He should never be, and will never be, forgotten.
For Communism.
Well said,and for the woke idiots we have unfortunately amonst todays society,GUYS DOGS NAME WAS NIGGER a sign of the times yes,but they were different times a time when courage and integrity was needed,unlike these spineless little brats we have today.
And Lucas said;”This gives me an idea!”
Mark Hamill confirmed that George got the idea for the Death Star run from this scene during an interview with Sway.
Stay on target… Stay on target
This was the inspiration for the star wars trench run sequence.
Actually, it was the canyon run from 633 Squadron that gave him the idea.
When Gold squadron do the run in the trench they use similar script to scene before this. Reference the guns on the surface some on the towers.
There it is boys someone's woken them up what do you think about it Bob
My goodness its its big isn't it can we really break that
How many guns you think there are Trevor
I'd say there's about ten guns some in the field and some in the towers seem to upset them a bit
Or that bomber scene from Last Jedi which is dumb since Y-Wings exist
Y-wings were outdated by the time of the first rebellion, let alone the second
Truly a great film, and even greater, the brave crews who carried it out.
They were terrorists. The raid was a war crime and a complete failure.
The raid was a war crime.
It was also a complete failure, as Harris and Speer confirmed.
They were terrorists, like ISIS.
My mother's cousin was on the raid. F/Lt Jack Leggo DFC/bar Lancaster AJ P Serial ED 909. Later knighted for his charitable work.
"Great shot kid! That was one in a million!"
Negative, it just impacted on the surface!
In the end it was like when the first X wing pilot shot but it wasn’t precise enough
@@D3F1CAT0R George Lucas actively copied this for star wars
@@th8257 and The Hidden Fortress
"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit...." These guys were a different breed when Great Britain really was great!
That was when we had a true British bulldog spirit do you think we we still have it now though ? 🇬🇧🌞🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍
Abso-bloody-lutely.
You’re bloody right there mate!
Some fine men from the Parachute Regiment, and 22nd Regiment SAS definitely do!
Yes that's the bit that always gets me.
Doesn't get any better than this, my all time favourite war film.
Your Dam Right!
Mine is War Of The Roses
The best for sure - also enjoyed mosquito squadron..
@@shapoopy4784 What year?
Guy Gibson's own book is better.
Many years ago I met Mick Martin and Dave Shannon. They hated any form of hero worship, saw the raid as 'Just another day at work,' but would say 'I knew many heroes.' Both totally unassuming and to me they were - long before I met them, and always will be my heroes. Rest in Peace my brothers in arms.
Mick Martin was my dad's CO at RAF Nicosia in the 60s. I have a personally signed print of his Lancaster attacking the Moehne Dam whilst Gibby provided cover that he sent me after I wrote a prize winning essay abou 617 Squadron.
There is a story that while training on low flying, they originally hoped to drop the bombs from 120 ft and not 60ft on the actual bomb run. So the training took place in places like the Derwent valley. Anyway so one lancaster was on the low approach to 120 ft and NZ Les Munroe (deceased) a pilot practicing for the raid flew his aircraft under the lancaster at 120 ft. Thats pretty good skill. SQ leader Les Munro died aged 96 in New zealand on the 4th of August 2015.
I have "Dambusters" by Max Arthur, in which Joe McCarthy's bomb aimer, George (Johnny) Johnson, mentioned the low flying during training.
"On one occasion we ended up at the bombing range to do a practice run, and we were flying at 30 feet, and somebody flew underneath us."
Apparently Joe McCarthy used to fly under the powerlines then pull up over the swing bridge at Sutton Bridge.
The crews had a great time with the low flying during their training for the mission - being required to do something that they would normally be court-martialled for.
mr james
That's an incredible story! Ha!
I met Les about 6 months before he died at an air show. You know what was extraordinary thing about him? Nothing, he was just a perfectly ordinary bloke who spoke the same way I did and was just a guy who when young all the BS we say about todays generations was said about his and he was simply a survivor. I had no need too treat him as anymore then just a man like any other and he (and some other WW2 pilots I've met) really appreciated I wasn't worshiping the ground they stood on. He may have been one of WW2s elite pilots but in the end was just an ordinary bloke.
You all know this film inspired Star Wars right? Les was in the second wave and getting ready too attack when his aircraft was shot too ribbons and the electronics went out so he couldn't navigate and the weapon system was probably fucked as well, what fan favourite character does that remind us of?
"Negative- just impacted on the surface"
Wdym they wont explode when they hit the water they were specialised bombs with flat panels on the bottom so they would skip
Was a reference to the Death Star scene on Star Wars, which took inspiration from this movie
"Luke, take Red 2 and 3, hold up here and wait for my signal, to start your run."
Only that never happened and this did at the cost of many lives on both sides.
It's a sad state of affairs when people reference this to a George Lucas film.
Who are we to judge though. Go on. Off you pop into fantasy WankLand.
George lucas, based the attack on the death star on this scene, he meant no disrepect, I'm sure
When I was a kid, my mom took me to see this movie in the cinema. All I have in mind in my whole life is this scene.
Gosh.
My Grandfather took me to see the film as young boy. I have never forgotten it from that day too this.
Eternal Glory to Gibson and his "guys" - RIP !!!
The raid was a war crime and a complete failure.
Mark Harrison
It was not the success that they wanted.
I shouldn't even be 'arguing the toss' with your first ridiculous comment!
If it was a 'war crime' then at least
you have to be alive to make such a statement. Have a nice day.
@@triplex2912 The failed raid would certainly be regarded as a war crime today.
@@grenville64 ignore him, he's a cowardly troll.
@@gravydavy4188 with multiple accounts, warchild, Bubi ruski, Ralph Bernhard........
One of the best films ever made.
It at least inspired one of the best movies ever made.
James Henderson troll
@@TU-mf2ut which is?
@@Max.midd786 Star Wars. This scene inspired the Death Star assault at the end of A New Hope.
To me the most amazing part of the raid was the precision flying and navigation required just to get to the target. Never mind carrying out an accurate attack, and then egressing successfully…
The raid was a complete failure, and a war crime.
Testicals the size of bushel baskets that clanked when they walked.
"Red Leader, this is Gold Leader, we're starting our attack run."
"Biggs, Wedge, let's close it up. We're going in, we're going in full throttle. That outta keep those fighters off our backs."
"Eject, Maudslay!"
"I can hold it..."
@@KrillLiberator Pull up!
@@galatian5 "No I'm alrig. Ahhhhhhhhhh*explodes*
I love the exchange between Barnes Wallace and the stuffy Civil Servant.
"You want a wellington Bomber! What possible excuse could I give the Air Ministry to get you a Wellington Bomber?"
"Well, if you told them I designed it. Do you think that might help?"
Richard Todd spent his last years living near Grantham and was often seen around the town. He was a Disney Robin Hood during an illustrious career but failed to be knighted by the realm,
He abused his own children.
A disgrace when ;you look at some of the people who receive knighthoods. Maybe he should have made a donation to the Tory party.
@@rogueriderhood1862 Todd was a lifelong Tory.
He also abused his own children.
“Steady, steady”
“Stay on target”. Seeing this scene really does make me believe that George Lucas was a Dambusters fan.
He was - it's no secret that he actively copied this whole scene for star wars. He watched it again and again, copying the rhythm, scene changes. Someone once did a side by side comparison and in many ways it's an exact copy
The films used for Star Wars flying scenes include 'Dambusters', '633 Squadron', 'The Bridges as Toko-Ri', 'Air Force (1942)' and others.
@@th8257 That was old TH-camr HenryVKeiper. It was a good comparison exercise.
I have seen this film so many times since the early 50s. Now it makes me sad that these young crews, the cream of RAF, suffered such terrible losses in a war not of their making. Bomber crews were the bravest of the brave.
Gibby, said on the morning after to Wallace, " they would have gone any way, Mr Wallace apparently Barnes never quite got over it.
Your point?
As a matter of fact, bomber crews had a survival ratio worst than infantrymen in ww. 1 trenches.
@King Royal Actually whilst correct, you conveniently forget to add that the reason was Britain and France had made a treaty with Poland to assist Poland if Germany attacked Poland - which they did. Britain and France said to Germany that it should withdraw its forces, Germany refused and so we went to war. A war which sooner or later we would have been involved in.
@@colinrunciman5166 Gibbo - as he was known, said to Wallis 'That even knowing the odds were against them, those boys would still have gone!' You can read his words in his own words in 'Enemy Coast Ahead,' and in Paul Brickhill's book 'The Dam Busters,'
Years ago i bumped into richard todd in a local wilkinsons store as he lived nearby...lovely man and drove a lovely old silver audi100 car....rip richard.
He abused his children.
Aye, met him too in a tailors shop in Grantham one day! Nice fellow and a real war hero who led the attack on Pegasus Bridge in Normandy on D-Day which he re-lived himself in the film Longest Day.
@@BradBrassman often see him driving around grantham in that old audi 100.
It's strange seeing some of the comments here. Some people, who were born decades after the war, talking about returning to how we were then when they clearly have no understanding of it and seem to have a weird cos play version of history in their heads. Anyone who did live through the war saw it for what it was. Brutal, violent, filled with death, suffering and deprivation. It's interesting how so many of the people who did actually live through that time said "never again". Nobody in their right mind would ever want to go back to that. Perhaps that's the problem. They're not in their right minds.
A good thought. "not in their right minds" or perhaps just don't know what life was really like then. My Mum trained as a nurse in London in 1943, and stayed in that job for forty years... I learned a little about it from her.
Yes, read Guy Gibsons book Enemy Coast Ahead that explains quite a bit of how it really was for the men.
The special effects are nice, but the explosion effect is really uncanny to me.
I always believed it to be footage from either a flooded waterway (a river) or a stormy ocean, with what looks like a superimposed cutout water geyser over the top of the swirling water. Actually i have the book "Filming the Dam Busters" by Johnathan Falconer. A special effects firm from Soho was contracted to matte the explosion over the model of the Mohne Dam and add the tracer and flak, but no explanation on the swirling water im afraid.
Just the available graphics in those days, I'm afraid. We have all been spoiled by computers.
Remember it came out in the 1950s
Stewart Dovey why would they need to paste running water into the scene? It’s surely more technically difficult than just building a model and using smoke and it doesn’t look as good.
it was the best they had my son
19 Crews x seven per ship = 87 Brits, 30 Canadians, 13 Australians, 2 New Zealanders, 1 American = 133
Now that's a list
And all the best of the best.
A few of the Canadians were in the RAF aside from the RCAF
@@freakyflow The american, Joe McCarthy was in the RCAF. He stayed in that service after the war and, I read, took Canadian citizenship.
@@rogueriderhood1862 Many Americans flew in the RCAF And then meshed in aswell with the RAF ...1 in 4 RAF members in the air And ground crew were Canada However Back then to prevent automatic war Americans were counted as Canadians Pre 1941 And when Dec 7th happen...Many Americans stayed with the RAF while some wanted to return And defend the west coast
I am fortunate to live a relatively short distance from Ladybower and it's associated dam where Gibson and others practiced and perfected their low-level runs. Incidentally the closure of RAF Scampton is an absolute disgrace and should have never been allowed.
Gibson was an anti-Semite.
My late father grew up close to Ladybower, and was there through the war years. He did his national service just post war as an airframe mechanic on Lancs with 617 squadron at Scampton. He would have been appalled at them closing the base there.
'I bet he drinks Carling Black Label!'
Never, only single malt whisky
always be proud of you and the boys, Gibby!
Just finished reading "Enemy Coast Ahead" written by Gibson himself. And the last chapter describes the attack on this dam. The script here follows exactly what Gibson wrote in his book, down to the last detail.
Yes have a copy of that book too, really good read.
It was an anti-Semitic book.
@@MarkHarrison733 How so?
@@opportunity-kfpairlines6716 It's why the first edition had to be censored.
@@MarkHarrison733 oh, i thought it was because of Gibson's dog's name. Could you explain a bit more?
0:20 "Stand by to take over if anything happens." - "Okay Leader." So incredibly matter-of-fact about it all.
Gibson was 24 years old and a wing commander with over 100 operations under his belt .....it’s absolutely staggering...the other pilot he is speaking with was John Hopgood in M for Mother he was 21 years old and was lost at the first dam
@@savoysix5468 Young men are so incredibly motivated and yet they don't fear consequences like a mature adult does. Glorious.
If they ever do remake this, they would do well to squeeze in some of the pre-617 work of the various key pilots, to really set them up as an elite force of young men, rather than this movie's group of pilots who you don't know til they're assembled. For fifteen minutes of extra screen time, the writers could really set up the skills, experience and courage of such ridiculously young men and really put it into jaw-dropping context.
I think that young cinema-goers would love the exploits and daring of indomitable young heroes. Better than the Avengers, by far.
@@KrillLiberator I think the opposite. Unfortunately, I think it would have little meaning for a modern audience, addicted to CGI and one death every six minutes. If you watch the original, Michael Redgrave even trills his Rs. Nobody has done that for fifty years. But who would see it? I thought Midway was pretty poor, with unrealistic CGI flying sequences that are the product of the fact that we just don’t have any old WWII era aircraft left to build these sequences with. And that was made for a much bigger and more receptive audience than a remake of the Dam Busters would.
An incredible feat.
It was a complete failure.
@@markharrison2544 A failure inasmuch as the British failed to follow up on what they had achieved. I mentioned in another reply that I have "Dambusters" by Max Arthur. One of the anecdotes in the book is an observation by Albert Speer, the German Minister Of Armament And War Production who, in five months, had repaired both dams in time for the autumn and winter rains.
Speer was surprised that the breaching of the dams was not followed by repeat attacks:
"While we were engaged in rebuilding, the British Air Force missed its second chance. A few bombs would have produced cave-ins at the exposed building sites and a few fire bombs could have set the wooden scaffolding blazing."
I have never read, or heard of, any reason why the British failed to do this.
81 years ago today these young men from around the world departed for a mission, many never to return. #wewillrememberthem
This was a genius idea, in no doubt divinely inspired.
"Divinely inspired..." By whom, or what, precisely?
Does it matter ? The GOOD of course.
This is astonishing
Great classic ww2 movie with real Lancaster bombers. One of the most courageous air raids of ww2 besides operation tidal wave
It was a complete failure, and a war crime.
@Kernal Scott 2 See what Harris said abut the failed raid.
DeutschwehR Fuck Germany you got beaten so bad you have to change your history in school so kids don’t learn about it
@@markharrison2544 Harris was always against it until it succeeded. Then he took credit for it and as soon as the excitement died down, he went back to his original criticism. So what Harris said doesn’t matter.
It wasn’t a war crime in 1943. That didn’t change until 1977.
@@markharrison2544 The Nazis accounted every bit of damage, every death, every lost bit of farming equipment, car and every field covered with mud and gravel that would not produce any produce and for how long.
They put a Reichmark value on all of it, and included the costs to rebuild the two dams destroyed, checks and repairs to the other two dams attacked (Sorpe and Bever), build defences at all dams to defeat this kind of attack, increase flak defences generally, and costed the extra manpower needed.
Then they got onto the the damage done to private companies, the factories not operating and lost production due to interruptions in electrical power, the farmers inconvenienced by the destruction of a slave-labour camp, the many private and local government owned houses destroyed, damaged and those that needed to be rebuilt (fewer, as people were dead, and few new houses and factories were being built at that time).
The records are available in the public records of the local area, and German national archives.
The cost to the Nazis is exactly quantifiable, and is often mentioned in more recent books on the subject.
The cost of the aircraft and crews lost, the research, design, modification and construction phases of the Lancasters and weapon, the training and experience of the crews lost, is also in available reports in the National Archives, no longer secret.
Even the cost to the war effort in Britain was accounted for, as a squadron of Lancaster aircraft and the 'upkeep' weapons were kept in store until the end of the war, with 617 Squadron getting new aircraft for each new weapon ('earthquake bombs' the 'highball' weapon, etc.).
Harris hated that idea, but had become persuaded that 'special' aircraft for certain roles were needed.
24 years old when he flew this mission.
26 years old when he was shot down and killed.
It is amazing to think what he did in his short life
I'm not sure how many missions Gibson completed, 174 up to the time he was rested from flying duty, but he must have flown more missions than any other pilot.
He flew with a Handley-Page bomber squadron and was the only pilot survivor.
He flew night-fighters for a 'tour', then commanded 106 Squadron of Lancasters for another 'tour' (20 or 30 operations), then was put in charge of creating 617 squadron, flew the Dams raid, was retired, went back to operational flying as a Master Bomber flying a Mosquito on night raids, then was killed in a crash during a return flight.
Yes, the pity was they now know he was shot down by the rear gunner in a Lancaster returning from a Pathfinder mission, who thought he was a J.U. 88 nightfighter. @@stevetheduck1425
@@pauldurkee4764 The dams raid was his 175th mission. He was killed on the next one.
OMG sends shivers through me.
Those guys really had to have big balls, flying ahead with all those shells coming at you.
One day, I hope to read a thread about World War airmen in which not a single contributor makes a single reference to the size and composition of the airmens' testicles.
Seriously, it's pathetic.
@@MarsFKA Woke
@@fjp3305 No, just bored with a witless, utterly unoriginal comment that ran out of steam the very first time it was ever used.
Stirring stuff!
These pilots were a breed apart! No nonsense generation. There will never be a generation like them again. All heroes.
The two movies that inspired Star Wars (1977) [now known as Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope]
The Dam Busters (1955)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
One of the great things about this clip is that it all takes place at night so you don't notice that it is a black and white film.
These aircrew were so brave plus all the other bomber crews that were lost during the last war.
Do you think ISIS terrorists are brave?
Today's pilot would struggle to repeat this flying in this aircraft in these conditions. I was fortunate to meet Guy Gibson's great granddaughter at an aerodrome in Australia where she showed me memorabilia of her grandfather it was an unforgettable few minutes. She is a fine pilot too and a fantastic woman to talk to.
The raid failed.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw yes it did in a way but it slowed down steel making for a time and that's what winning a war is all about....step by step. Sad loss of men on both sides.
Guy and his wife did not have children. Who you met may have been a distant relation, but not a great grand daughter.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw
Wrong. It was a success
@@awatt Harris and Speer confirmed it was a complete failure.
Those guys on the dam must have SHIT themselves when they saw that Lancaster roaring towards them
Nah, they just downed some carling black label.
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The ambient hum...dark picture and camera angles kinda makes you feel like you are in the cockpit with them
When that hum rises to a scream, you know there's trouble. When it stops...
While living in Germany (1990-91) I visited the Möhne Dam and saw where it had been breached (the stone work of the repair was lighter than the rest). During a boat ride on the reservoir I'm pretty sure that the photonI took of the dam was at the distance the bombs were released.
Release point was about 450 metres from the wall, if that jogs your memory.
,The squadron is a legend
RIP Johnny Johnson
Made the model Lancaster bomber after seeing the movie.
I remember Revell brought out a model of the Dambuster version just after the details of the weapon came off the secret list. Yes, I did build it.
Stupenda pellicola ispirata alla vera storia dell' Operazione Castigo, non è chissà che cosa ma comunque interessante, ci sono degli errori come il fatto che Prima del raid, i Lancaster vengono mostrati carichi di munizioni per mitragliatrice. I proiettili caricati sono calibro 50, mentre i Lancaster, a quel tempo, usavano solo mitragliatrici calibro .303, quindi stupenda e stupenda per me come valutazione è 8.
"London is not longer an english City." JOHN CLEESE
And that has got precisely what to do with this video?
So proud to be British. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Bro this inspired me so much i now use "bom gone" and the mesurments
"Negative, negative. It didn't go in. Just impacted on the surface."
0:46 -coming up FAM....
-This is FIRE🔥I can see
everything....
Fine
"I say--any of you chaps hearing the voice of Alec Guinness?..."
Is the Bloody Dog on Board? Sah!!
Bloody Hell!!!!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Legend has it Nagger is still in the back of that airplane.
Honestly a remake, hast to be a StopMotion animation, because the effects in this was awesome, and i wanna replicate that and respect it, so it would a bit creative and realistic by visual persay.
Gibson sounds like Ewan McGregor
“Stay on target! STAY ON TARGET!!!”
Creativity � like human life itself � begins in darkness. Julia Cameron
RIP George Johnson "the Last Dambuster" 8th December 2022
This film is my favourite film the dam bustes with RICHARD TODD WHO PLAYS GUY GIBSON WHO WANT IN 617 SQUADRON,,,,,,
Squadren Leader Guy Gibson VC DSO bar DFC bar Lest we forget.
The battle of yavin (the death star assult) from star wars: a new hope was based on this!
You should also check out 633 Squadron, the canyon attack from that also inspired the trench run.
Yeah, I see it’s still there.
I’ve watched numerous times throughout my life from child to adult, to truly understand the heroism is impossible. As you get older the experience changes so many different ways. I’ll never forget.
They were like ISIS.
Reminds me of another movie that came out in the summer of 1977….
That bombardier's good. He is firing the front machine guns while aiming the bomb.
There was a gunner sat in the turret above him they stirrups in the turret so the gunners legs wouldn't get in the bomb aimers way
They removed the mid-upper, the gunner was then moved to the front turret usually operated by the bomb-aimer (bombardier is an American term). They also installed a mid-lower "turret" on these Lancasters, not sure what the purpose was at such low level, it would be pointing straight at the ground.
@@nathansaunders2576 There was no lower turret on the Avro type 464 “provisioning Lancaster”. Some others were fitted with it to counter “Schrage musik” but not on these aircraft.
@@nathansaunders2576 There were seven men on each aircraft - Pilot, Flight Engineer, Navigator, Wireless Operator, Bomb Aimer, Rear Gunner, Front Gunner.
The term bombardier is a US one! There was no gunner on the underside, the front gunner was actually the mid-upper gunner and he supported his feet in stirrups. During the flight to and from the target both the Bomb Aimer and Front Gunner assisted the navigator with the navigation because the aircraft were flying rather low!
No. While it is true that on regular missions in a standard Lancaster, the bomb-aimer manned the front gun turret before and after the bomb run, on this mission a dedicated air-gunner, who usually manned the mid-upper turret (that had been removed for this mission as part of the modifications) was in the front turret the whole time. The low altitude of both the attack and the traverse to and from the target meant that the front guns were needed far more than on a regular mission at altitude
And today 617 Squadron still flies but with F-35s.
Two of the aussies came from where I live - one in my adjoining suburb! Proud of these men, however it feels wrong to say this was a ‘victory’. Yes, it took away a lot of manhours from the Germans, but 1,000 allied pows and 600 civilians dead. It just feels weird how glorified this event is
Gibson was incredibly brave and a fantastic leader. After the second aircraft to attack was shot down he flew low across the dam as a diversion during the subsequent attacks and ordered other aircraft to do the same after their live runs. It worked.
@King Royal Guy Gibson died when he was 26 fighting the most evil regime in european history. Out of the 3 dams 2 were destroyed causing massive disruption to the enemy. Your other assertions are baseless. Does it make you feel better about you own sad little life to belittle someone far more brave and capable than you will ever be?
@King Royal nonsense- it took months to repair the dams and huge amounts of diverted labour. Gibson's book's first edition was censored for military secrecy reasons. He was a hero and you are Nazi troll.
@@robertstorey7476 You are correct; “King Royal”, who also posts as “Mark Harrison”, is either a wehraboo or a crypto-Nazi. And yes, he definitely is a troll. You should ignore him.
@King Royal No but I couldn’t care less.
@King Royal Lies.
Eyeballs I go for
If you want the movie in full, see if you can find a very young Patrick McGoohan in a bit part. lol I was like "Holy S--t? Is that Patrick McGoohan?". Sure enough, it was.
Yes, a sergeant on the door.
Save Scampton!
Too late! I'd rather it was bombed than see what's happening to it. In fact I'd like to see it bombed once it has been filled to overflowing!
The public will never know much they were sold out by post-war British governments. The U.S. was able to call the shots politically after 1945 when it bailed-out the U.K. with a strings-attached loan, while the Germans and Japs got favoured by the fascist-friendly U.S. elite: read about the exploits of John McCloy and his fellow administrators of Western Germany after the war.
"Use the force Luke "
Sadly another inaccuracy in the movie. Because Gibson was so busy with official meeting for weeks before the raid, he and his crew had the least practice of the bombing method. As a result his upkeep was released to early and sank 50 feet away from the dam wall. It was critical the bomb should contact the wall and slide down the wall before detonating. Of the 5 aircraft to attack the Mohne Dam only 2 attacks were successful by the book. Martin in P for Popsie, and Maltby in J for Johnnie.
Well, that's why they say at the end of the scene that the dam is "still there"
According to John Sweetman’s book, Gibson’s bomb hit a floatation tank the was holding up a torpedo net, resulting in it ending up short. Max Hastings points out that the bomb tended to swing to the left, which explains why Martin’s bomb missed. Prior to the op, only a small number of pilots had flown with and dropped a real Upkeep. Both Les Munro and Henry Maudslay suffered significant damage to their Lancasters, Maudslay having to revert to the spare, “Z for Zebra” for the operation because the damage was so bad.
According to Max Hastings, the first bomb to seriously damage the Mohne was dropped from “A for Apple”, which was Melvin Young’s aircraft. There is little doubt that Maltby’s bomb was on target but it seems the wall was already crumbling by the time it hit, due to damage done by Young’s bomb. The Eder, which wasn’t nearly as important as the Sorpe, was breached by Les Knight in “N for Nuts”.
The breach in the Mohne can be seen to have resulted from two explosions some distance apart, and the aerial photos of the drained lake, seen on almost every newspaper at the time, shows at least one crater in the mud, well to the left, and about a dam's width away.
Someone missed very badly, but only at the Eder dam did a bomb 'punch through' the dam and cause a breach in the intended way.
23 year old Guy Gibson and squad what happened to these types of men
Progress, and not for the better.
Inspired the Star Wars trench attack of the Deathstar,
Negative, negative, it didn’t go in. Just impacted on the surface
Of course there was no cgi and real aircraft were used for the movie. I believe only three airworthy aircraft were available and the others were used in static display on the airfield. So scenes were re-shot repeatedly to give the impression of multiple aircraft, from a Wellington Bomber. If you view the scenes of the aircraft crossing the coast or travelling across the countryside, it gives a greater insight of the bravery of the aircrews. Especially given the movie aircraft were probably flying much higher. Respect to the movie pilots also. Remembering at the time these were all men in their early 20's, who ate breakfast every morning looking at an empty table where their mates had been the day before, some of whom admitted crying themselves to sleep at the time.
In the Officer's Mess, an empty table meant up to eight crews lost... Crews made up of all ranks did not 'dine' together.
Officer's Mess, Sergeant's Mess, Airmen's Mess.
Similar grub though, less alcohol the lower down you were, though.
@@stevetheduck1425 Airmen were not aircrew, from around the middle of 1940 all aircrew were NCO's or commissioned officers.
All heroes very brave
THIS for the knockers! This was one of the greatest feats in the second world war. If you had done your homework, you will find that there were thousands of workers brought in to repair the dams. many of them were working on the Atlantic Wall at the time. Further, the propaganda from this raid was a tonic for many in America that had only recently come on our side. The number killed on this raid was regrettable but miniscule compared to those lost in bomber command during that war. The dambusters flew into immortality that night and we should respect their memory rather that trying to detract from what they achieved for all of us.
The hand held bomb sight was impossible to use due to vibration from the rotating upkeep
That was a problem in some aircraft and not others. It seems not all the bombs were well balanced. But the problem at that level was turbulence and the Dann sight was difficult to use.
Most of the bomb aimers used tape separated at the right distance on the front glass anyway.
Some improvised a piece of string with tape holding it to either side of the bomb-aimer's blister in the nose, to make a triangle the right size, and held the apex up to their eye.
Pretty much impossible but they did it anyhow - barely past their teens.
Stand by tool me out the seat if I get it.
Balls of steel
619 Squadron The Dam Busters !
617 Sqadron
My great uncle was a dam buster, he was the bomb aimer Keith astbury
Still does tracers better than "Fury".
Steady.....
The Andromedian Greek combat fleet salute the Dambuster Heroes of WW2. May Zeus bless you all.
"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit"
Don't think there would have been much chance of that flying at 60 feet!
Almost there…almost there…
A competent remake of this would be a huge hit. Imagine it with the CGI treatment given 'Midway'.
Terry Bratton maybe cgi will help with explosions etc but cgi flying is terrible and nothing beats the real thing
Peter Jackson has been planning a remake for a while. There was even discussion about leaving the dogs name in it to.
@@Hargravity He abandoned the movie in 2018 after failing to secure enough finance for it and The Hobbit trilogy had taken up too much time from his planned schedule. Should have just made one movie then!
Dear Sir, apparently they thought it's gonna be tough. But I agree!!
A Canadian, pilot, said after brief to Ken ,its been nice Ken. Would we do this?
He meant he wouldn't see him again,
Now people don't understand, but I do. And the flying crew involved, especially the airmen who didn't return scampton, I have all respect rgds colin.
It was 60feet above the dams, Gibson said at that, we could hiccup and be in the water, but we will give it a go. Other pilots thought oh, Christ, well we are not coming back from this one, 12 Lancs didn't, I believe.....
And A Dog Named "Digger" LOL. (smile) No Wonder He Got Ran Over.
The explosion looked fake but still that's still awesome
It was just a video of a torrent of water matted onto a bomb blast exposure. Simply a 1950s method of green-screening.
The special matte effects were the best they could do in 1954: they couldn't ever look convincing. Maybe superimposing slow-mo footage of naval depth-charge explosions could have done the trick.
we HAVEN'T!......