Yes, Moggy, the 2AD and its B-24s miss out as usual.
I’ve been told that scripting for the TV series has seen a turnover of different writers, with some unable to grasp the language style and idioms of the period or the stress of missions; Band of Brothers is a hard act to follow.
The budget for Masters of the Air was originally given as $500m. I imagine it’s gone up a fair bit since. Norfolk County Council will need a few quid too – to widen the roads around Billingford and Thorpe Abbotts once the series airs.

As for focusing on the 100th BG, you’d have to blame Don Miller – it’s central to his book.
He’s been running UK tours for American enthusiasts for the past couple of summers, costing around $7,000 a head. Presumably he’s since formed a link with the ‘Visit East Anglia’ organisation, hence yesterday’s bash at Duxford.

All this talk of latter-day PC sensitivies reminded me (if my memory’s not playing tricks) that the 1954 film was promoted in the US as ‘The Dambusters’, not ‘The Dam Busters’, in case folks in the Bible Belt took offence on hearing the word ‘dam’. Can anyone confirm? These days, the single word ‘Dambusters’ seems to have become the standard way of referring not only to the film but 617 Squadron too.

You had me going there for a minute – I thought the thread title read ‘Aliens Green’. Should’ve gone to ‘that shop’….

I think this programme may be presented by Michael Brandon – he of Dempsey and Makepeace fame. If so, it’s been on ‘Yesterday’ before (along with just about everything else).

More here.

Yes, Eyebrook (after the stream that fed it), but it was often referred to by the nearby town name of Uppingham (where ‘Dambusters 2’ scriptwriter Stephen Fry went to school – as did actor Richard Thorp, Henry Maudslay in the original film). Similarly, Guy Gibson referred to Abberton reservoir as ‘Colchester Lake’ in Enemy Coast Ahead.

Anonymity encourages discourtesy – and, in some cases, downright rudeness. Take no notice, Eh Team. Internet forums of all kinds are an easy refuge for those who wouldn’t say ‘boo to a goose’ in real life, using them merely to vent their prejudices against others.