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The Dambusters Raid
Laserlight Productions 2001 - BBC

A 49-minute documentary which gives a straightforward account of the raid using interviews with some of the men from 617 squadron and some of the german witnesses. Historians provide a balanced analysis of the impact of the mission.

The Sorpe dam was one of the three primary targets and the only one that wasn't breached. The British didn't realise that the Sorpe had a concrete core and so it was higly unlikely that it could have been breached without hitting it with many more mines.

The first Lancaster to reach the Sorpe was AJ-T. The bomb aimer was George "Johnny" Johnson and he insisted on nine dummy runs before he was satisfied that he had the optimum position to release the mine. He is now 98 years old and the last survivor of Operation Chastise.

Johnny Johnson on the far left.