the Dambusters on channel 5

[franks brother]

Watching now on channel 5 now did not quite hear the name of guy gibsons dog was it When I first heard it, and then again and again, I thought I must have been mis-hearing it.

Knicker Digger? can any one help thanks

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Watching now on channel 5 now did not quite hear the name of guy gibsons dog was it When I first heard it, and then again and again, I thought I must have been mis-hearing it.

Knicker Digger? can any one help thanks

You would think after the fury of what happened to that DJ that played the version of The sun has got his hat on with it in they would dub it to digger

 

[doogie004]

Tigger?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

A great film and I know it is War but the glee that was shown when the dams had been breached knowing thousands of innocent civilians were going to die sits a bit uneasy.

 

[Beach Hut]

Watching now on channel 5 now did not quite hear the name of guy gibsons dog was it When I first heard it, and then again and again, I thought I must have been mis-hearing it.

Knicker Digger? can any one help thanks

Ask a certain Top Gear presenter........

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I am pretty sure the film has been altered to erase the name of the Dog now.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

A great film and I know it is War but the glee that was shown when the dams had been breached knowing thousands of innocent civilians were going to die sits a bit uneasy.

How many were saved though US

 

[doogie004]

I am pretty sure the film has been altered to erase the name of the Dog now.

Not the one on channel 5 right now
great film though

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

How many were saved though US

Good point. It is a still a glorification of an event imo. I wonder if Barnes Wallace went to bed that night and slept easily. Like Oppenheimer.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Not the one on channel 5 right now
great film though

that slipped through the censorship then.

 

[Stat Brother]

You would think after the fury of what happened to that DJ that played the version of The sun has got his hat on with it in they would dub it to digger

and in the interests of social inclusion it would be good if the duber had a nice Jamacian patois.

 

[franks brother]

that slipped through the censorship then.

I was surprise it was left in, But the dog's name was one of the code-words used during the attack

 

[Barrel of Fun]

A great film and I know it is War but the glee that was shown when the dams had been breached knowing thousands of innocent civilians were going to die sits a bit uneasy.

I went to a talk on this subject by a man whom flew with this squadron and he said something along the lines of "war is not easy".

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

SPOILER - The Dog Died.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I am pretty sure the film has been altered to erase the name of the Dog now.

An ITV version altered the name of the dog by dubbing in an alternative word but they overlooked the morse code message which transmitted the success of the operation which spelt out the dogs name

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Good point. It is a still a glorification of an event imo. I wonder if Barnes Wallace went to bed that night and slept easily. Like Oppenheimer.

But people were mentally tougher then US they didn't get upset about things like we do now - We get events of mass hysteria regularly now hyped up by the press and media.

Have you ever seen that photo of the boy strolling down the road past the bodies at Belsen ? How could someone cope with that in any circumstances unless they were mentally evolved to cope with it.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I went to a talk on this subject by a man whom flew with this squadron and he said something along the lines of "war is not easy".

I am sure it is not. I love the film but when punching the air when the dams are busted think. Ok, what now ?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I am sure it is not. I love the film but when punching the air when the dams are busted think. Ok, what now ?

Mission accomplished. Who's buying the brandy?

 

[franks brother]

Remake on the way http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/adam-helliker/400797/Hobbits-hold-up-the-Dambusters

 

[skipper734]

Good point. It is a still a glorification of an event imo. I wonder if Barnes Wallace went to bed that night and slept easily. Like Oppenheimer.

He probably didn't, he was worried about the loss of allied airmen dropping his bombs. Christ's Hospital was his Alma Mater.

Wallis became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945 and was knighted in 1968. He was awarded the sum of £10,000 for his war work from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. His grief at the loss of so many airmen in the dams raid was such that Wallis donated the entire sum to Christ's Hospital School in 1951 to allow them to set up the RAF Foundationers' Trust, allowing the children of RAF personnel killed or injured in action to attend the school.[SUP][9][/SUP]