Apart from the fact that due to censorship the 1950’s dambusters featured
Lancasters carrying a bomb that looked like an edam cheese! History has always been modified and blended to suit the film maker .
I was always under the impression the fact that the bombs didn’t look anything like the real thing was due to Upkeep still being officially “secret” and that the producers had to use their imaginations when it came to designing their props. I didn’t realise that it was all down to censorshiip.
Still, if they were censored back then, it was a different kind of censorship, for a different reason, compared to the PC censorship enforced today.
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