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1955
The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, and directed by Michael Anderson. Adapted by R. C. Sherriff from the books The Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson, the film depicts the true story of Operation Chastise in which the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe dams in Nazi Germany with Barnes…
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In the 1980s I used to spend a lot of free time playing various games on my ZX Spectrum home computer. Among them was *The Dam Busters*, one of the rare computer simulations based on a real historical event. The event in question was perhaps not the most important military operation of the Second World War, but it was definitely one of the more spectacular. Its dramatic potential was, of course, recognised by filmma…More
