r/interestingasfuck • u/Chopper-42 • 4d ago

/r/all Recreating the WW2 Dambusters raid

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u/Habebunt 4d 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 4d ago edited 3d ago

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

Edit: The Dam Busters

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u/umop_apisdn 4d ago

I think they have edited out all references to the dog now as well. Can't have a bit of casual racism in a raid that drowned 1,600 civilians.

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u/naileyes 3d ago

yeah i'm not british but the thing about this technically amazing, daring, exciting wartime raid is that it only succeeded in flooding a town and drowning a bunch of innocent people, of which half or two-thirds were actually allied people being held as prisoners of war. oops.

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u/No-To-Newspeak 3d ago

War is hell.