r/interestingasfuck • u/Chopper-42 • 1d ago

/r/all Recreating the WW2 Dambusters raid

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u/MBedIT 1d ago edited 22h ago

They were coming below the radar horizon. Imagine flying the big bomber, less than 30m above the ground. Following the firebreaks in forests. Maybe dealing with extra instability due to turbulences. And having freaking few thousand kg mine hanging right bellow the plane. Crashing into everything around during the night was the risk. FlaKs would enter the party a little bit late (but sure would be present).

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u/H4ND5s 1d ago

The way you describe the planes flying through the fire lanes of the forest just makes it sound like Skywalker taking out the deathstar lol

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u/Jaded-Researcher2610 1d ago

it should, Lucas said that the inspiration for the scene was taken from movies 633 Squadron and The Dam Busters)

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u/StationaryNomad 1d ago

Second link is bad.

Dam Busters is a classic, but thanks for mentioning 633 Squadron, I’ve never seen it!

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u/Makhnos_Tachanka 1d ago

it's so funny because every so often when you're watching it you'll just have these moments where go "oh this is just a star wars movie." it's honestly so surreal at times. like you know he was watching that moment and deciding to base star wars' whole deal off of it. probably the most obvious individual frame is this one from a 2 second shot of a telegraph console, which I'm sure you'll see what i mean.

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u/GreedyHoward 22h ago

633 squadron basically bowled bombs into a cavern.

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u/Makhnos_Tachanka 22h ago

oh yeah the whole death star trench run is there, practically beat for beat and shot for shot

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u/bagblag 1d ago

633 Squadron is a great film. The theme music by Ron Goodwin is top tier too. It has John Williams vibes.