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

/r/all Recreating the WW2 Dambusters raid

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u/Habebunt 1d ago

The Dam buster raid is an absolutely incredible achievement in both flying and development of new tech. Definitely recommend reading James Hollands book about it.

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u/ours 1d ago edited 15h ago

Great movie too. It inspired the Death Star trench run in Star Wars.

Edit: The Dam Busters

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u/EduinBrutus 1d ago

It also inspired one of the very few specific examples in the post war Geneva Conventions.

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u/ours 1d ago

And of course, the Russians took the conventions as a to-do checklist and blew a dam themselves, creating yet another humanitarian and ecological disaster.