Unfortunately the story and the film of the Dambusters is not very well known in the states even by some of the so called aviation experts.

A friend of mine who lives near LA refused to believe that we had 5 ton bombs that bounced along the water until one year i bought a laptop and DVD of the film with me and all i got was ‘gee i did not know that!!’ as a reply.

Shame though as there was American crew in the raid!!, but as for it the cinema in the states it was was probably viewed as a bit of a lark 😡 or even worse pure fantasy.

Oh and i also noticed another line that George Lucas borrowed from the film for Star Wars while watching the film on the big screen (i will have to find out if i am right though).

curlyboy