I saw the original Dam Busters in Germany in about 1955-56. My father, a Colonel in the Rhine Army, took me to the rebuilt Moehne Dam, where you could see the fresh concrete in the wall. I look forward to the new film.... Max Novels from Mundania Press (www.mundania.com)- by Max and/or Ariana Overton: Writers of Historicals, Paranormal Thrillers & Murder Mysteries. (www.maxoverton.com) The Lion of Scythia Trilogy - EPPIE winners 2005 and 2006 The Glass House Trilogy Other Books: Trapdoor, Tapestry, The Devil is in the Details Coming Soon: A Cry of Shadows, Scarab - Book 1 - Akhenaten Works in Progress: Scarab - Book 2 - Smenkhkare, Scarab - Book 3 - Tutankhamen, Rakshasa >From: worldwar2-request@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: worldwar2@rootsweb.com >To: worldwar2@rootsweb.com >Subject: WORLDWAR2 Digest, Vol 1, Issue 14 >Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:13:21 -0600 > > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: The Dam Busters, film remake (George Smith) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:59:39 +0100 >From: George Smith <airforce@localdial.com> >Subject: Re: [WORLDWAR2] The Dam Busters, film remake >To: worldwar2@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20060902125939.00b5ecc8@mail.localdial.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Yes, Barnes Wallace used a new concept in the design of his aircraft, >Geodetics, which is a system of triangles in the structure covered with >fabric. > >I saw the R100 over Leicester in 1930. The Headmaster at school had seen it >and rang the fire bells so we all went into the playground and watched it >pass over, I also saw the R101 just before it crashed in France > > > >Hi All: > >The film The Dam Busters (1954, or 1955) is to be remade at >Weta > >Workshops, Wellington New Zealand, for $US 50 million, where it >is > >planned to build ten full-scale non-flying replicas of the >Lancaster > >bomber. The film is to be produced by Peter Jackson, and >directed by > >Christian Rivers of Weta (who got a visual effects Oscar for >the remake > >of King Kong). Jackson & Rivers recently visited Scampton air >base in > >England where the raid left from, and in Canada flew in one of the >three > >Lancasters still flying. Jackson is an aviation buff, rumoured >recently to > >be planning an aviation film set in WWI. The film is backed >by > >Universal & StudioCanal of Europe. >See: > >http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3783717a11,00.html > >http://www.stu >ff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3783992a11,00.html > > > >The RAF 617 Dambusters >Squadron included American, Canadian & > >New Zealand personnel. Les Munro, >now 87, of Tauranga New Zealand > >is the only surviving pilot of the 19 who >flew on the 1943 Dam mission > >(though his Lanc was hit en route and had to >abort). He was told off by > >the Air Force in 1955 for revealing some >technical mistakes in the earlier > >film (eg the true shape of the bomb), >and hopes the new film will include > >some of the antics they got up to >during training, ie low level flying and > >dogfights. Rivers expects to cast >actors in their twenties to capture how > >young the pilots really were; >Wing Commander Gibson was only 24. > >See on the new film: On the 1954 film, >see: > >http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/ > > > >The Dambusters raid destroyed >two dams, depriving German industry > >of water & power. Barnes Wallis >invented the special Upkeep dam > >bomb. He advocated effective precision >bombing rather than area > >bombing, used then because of the inability to >bomb accurately. Later > >he designed the deep penetration earthquake bombs >also dropped by > >Lancasters and used to bomb thick concrete structures like >U-Boat pens, > >the 12,000 lb Tallboy & the 22,000 lb Grand Slam (=5440 & >9980 kg). > >His main job was as an aircraft designer, the (successful) R 100 >airship > >and the Wellesley & Wellington bombers. On Wallis, >see: > >http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/irmurray/wallis.asp > > > >Yours, >John Wilson (New Zealand) > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To >unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WORLDWAR2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message >Regards > >George. > >George Smith <airforce@localdial.com> >Home Page: http://web.localdial.com/users/airforce >LRFHS Page: http://www.lrfhs.org.uk >Jersey Island Page: http://www.jerseyvirtual.net >Jersey Insight http://www.jerseyinsight.com >Jersey Centenary Battle of Flowers: >http://www.localdial.com/users/airforce/battle.html > > > >------------------------------ > >To contact the WORLDWAR2 list administrator, send an email to >WORLDWAR2-admin@rootsweb.com. > >To post a message to the WORLDWAR2 mailing list, send an email to >WORLDWAR2@rootsweb.com. > >__________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WORLDWAR2-request@rootsweb.com >with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body >of the >email with no additional text. > > >End of WORLDWAR2 Digest, Vol 1, Issue 14 >****************************************