[csvset]

Not exactly a bang-bang, shoot-'em-up pic, however, I admired Barnes Wallis' determination to develop the "bouncing bomb" used to blow up the dams.

[duk]

I saw the documentary about this operation. It was as good as the movie!

[Spook86]

Thanks for mentioning "The Dam Busters," a vastly underrated WWII film. It received solid reviews when it was released in the mid-1950s, but never did much at the box office, perhaps because it was a "British" film. However, the film gets the story right, and the special effects are remarkably good for that era. I keep hoping that someone will remake "Twelve O'Clock High," or "The Dam Busters," perhaps as a cable film. The special effects would be terrific, but the real problem would be casting. After seeing "Twelve O'Clock High" dozens of times, I can't imagine anyone besides Gregory Peck playing General Savage, and Dean Jagger is forever etched in my memory has Harvey Stovall...

One more note on "The Dam Busters." The real Guy Gibson, the RAF Wing Commander who led the raid on the Ruhr dams, was all of 25 years old when he planned and led that mission. Sadly, he died a year later while flying an RAF Misquito on a "pathfinder" mission over Holland.

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The Dam Busters is one of my fav's too. (But then again I am an engineerr...)