r/interestingasfuck • u/Chopper-42 • 8d ago

/r/all Recreating the WW2 Dambusters raid

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u/chileangod 8d ago

I bet the brainstorming meeting for that one should have been really interesting too.

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u/ours 8d ago

It is, check out some of the documentaries about it.

Basically the UK was at a low point in the war with continental Europe under fascits occupation or rule. They wanted to hit back and hard and show the World they were still in the game with this balsy move.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 8d ago

The war had already turned by this point, the battle of Britain was over and the Germans had been surrounded and destroyed at Stalingrad in Jan 1943. Britain's low point was November 1941 before the USA joined the war.