Wallis (Michael Redgrave) kept going, not only in research but in order to be heard, he skirted leadership.
Government rejected the idea as implausible, even chastising the absurdity. Wallis came up against not only physics, but wartime bureaucracy. While history marginalizes the bombing runs, the science demonstrates Britain’s resolve. Yet, The Dam Busters lingers in British culture for showing national ingenuity, resolve, and strategy – every element needed in a native war film. The attacks on multiple sites were, in execution, nominally effective in their goal.
Germany was then able to resume operations in little over a month. Now, the dam destruction falls under war crime statutes hundreds were drowned as the water flooded factories and towns, not all of them soldiers. The idea was genuinely brilliant – scientist Barnes Wallis developed a bouncing bomb, designed to skip across water, sink, then explode, shattering German dams and weakening the enemy’s steel production.ĭiscussions around the real world events and their importance to the greater cause remain debatable.
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