Minor technical and historical inaccuracies are not a disappointment to nit-pickers and self-appointed experts. Quite the contrary, they are delightful nuggets to be leaped upon, relished, and are a means to impress anybody who is interested ( or not) with ones superior knowledge.
Real howlers do detract from the credibility of a film and should be avoided, but it is naive and idealistic to suppose that film-makers could, or should expend huge resources of time and money, on details which will go unnoticed by almost all of the audience. After all, the film is a product, and the idea is to make a profit.
In historic aviation especially, one simply has to be pragmatic, as seen in 1968 (Battle of Britain) when the ONLY way to have a fleet of German bombers and fighters is to use merlin-engined examples. All flying films inevitably have compromises on technical details, and it is only a certain kind of person who gets too distracted by it.
So Dambusters will without doubt depart in some ways from recorded historic reality, but with strong characterisation and a compelling plot, there is great potential.
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