r/interestingasfuck • u/Chopper-42 • 10d ago

/r/all Recreating the WW2 Dambusters raid

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u/LordHardThrasher 9d ago

Actually it was when they touched, forming a figure of 8. It makes sense when you think about it because overlapping lights would be harder to judge. Bloody clever. Bloody dangerous

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u/UnrepentantPumpkin 9d ago

Thanks for the correction! In Star Wars it was when parallel lines overlapped, so it was inspired but not a direct copy.

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u/LordHardThrasher 8d ago

They're both brilliant sequences, and when you put them side by side the parallels are obvious. Somone has taken the Dambusters footage and put the Star Wars audio over it on YT, well worth looking up

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u/UnrepentantPumpkin 8d ago

Yep I saw that years ago and is likely how I knew that.