The Dam Busters, 1955

An image from the famous take-off scene in The Dam Busters . Three of the nine Lancaster bombers on their way to Germany's Ruhr Dams on 16 May 1943. I jokingly referred to the 1955 movie, The Dam Busters , in a post about busting beaver dams near the Havelock yard . I hadn't watched it in decades, so I rented a copy and sat down one blustery afternoon last week and watched again. I wasn't…