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26 relations: Barnes Wallis, Enemy Coast Ahead, Evans Brothers, Film, Group captain, Guy Gibson, Harold Brownlow Martin, Leonard Cheshire, London Evening News, Michael Redgrave, No. 617 Squadron RAF, Operation Chastise, Pan Books, Paul Brickhill, Ralph Cochrane, Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Richard Todd, Royal Air Force, Ruhr, The Dam Busters (film), The Great Escape (book), The Sun (Sydney), Victoria Cross, Wing commander (rank), World War II, 1954 in film.
Barnes Wallis
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor.
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Enemy Coast Ahead
Enemy Coast Ahead is an autobiographical book recounting the World War II flying career of Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, DSO, DFC.
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Evans Brothers
Evans Brothers was a British publishing house that was part of the Evans Publishing Group UK.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Group captain
Group captain is a senior commissioned rank in many air forces.
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Guy Gibson
Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson, (12 August 1918 – 19 September 1944), was the first Commanding Officer of the Royal Air Force's No. 617 Squadron, which he led in the "Dam Busters" raid (Operation Chastise) in 1943, resulting in the destruction of two large dams in the Ruhr area of Germany.
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Harold Brownlow Martin
Air Marshal Sir Harold Brownlow Morgan "Micky" Martin, (27 February 1918 – 3 November 1988) was an Australian bomber pilot and senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF).
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Leonard Cheshire
Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force pilot, group captain, and philanthropist during World War II.
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London Evening News
The London Evening News was a newspaper whose first issue was published on 14 August 1855.
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Michael Redgrave
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager, and author.
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No. 617 Squadron RAF
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Operation Chastise
Operation Chastise was an attack on German dams carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, later called the Dam Busters, using a purpose-built "bouncing bomb" developed by Barnes Wallis.
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Pan Books
Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.
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Paul Brickhill
Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 191623 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war and author who wrote The Great Escape, The Dam Busters, and Reach for the Sky.
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Ralph Cochrane
Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane, (24 February 1895 – 17 December 1977) was a British aviator and Royal Air Force officer, perhaps best known for his role in Operation Chastise, the famous "Dambusters" raid.
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books
The Reader's Digest Condensed Books were a series of hardcover anthology collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine Reader's Digest and distributed by direct mail.
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Richard Todd
Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd OBE (11 June 1919 – 3 December 2009) was an English actor.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Ruhr
The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet), or the Ruhr district, Ruhr region, Ruhr area or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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The Dam Busters (film)
The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic war film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd.
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The Great Escape (book)
(For the book on economic development, see The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality) The Great Escape is an insider's account by Australian writer Paul Brickhill of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen.
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The Sun (Sydney)
The Sun was an afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published under this name in 1910.
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Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.
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Wing commander (rank)
Wing commander (Wg Cdr in the RAF, the IAF, and the PAF, WGCDR in the RNZAF and RAAF, formerly sometimes W/C in all services) is a senior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence, including many Commonwealth countries but not including Canada and South Africa.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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1954 in film
The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(book)
