LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Dambusters 40th anniversary

Genre

News report; Interview; Music

TX Date

14 May 1983

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:03:46

Description

Paul Maurice reports on the fortieth anniversary of the so-called Dambusters raid by the RAF 617 Squadron, on the industrial Ruhr region of Germany during the Second World War. Includes interviews with then Flight Lieutenant (Mick) Harold Brownlow Morgan Martin, a pilot on the raid; Barnes Wallis, bouncing bomb inventor; recording of the Dambusters film theme tune.

Contributors

Paul Maurice; Barnes Wallis; Harold Brownlow Martin

Keywords

Germany; Second World War (1939-1945); Aerial bombardment; Air force; Military operations; Operation Chastise (1943); Reminiscence; Anniversaries; Dams

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