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	RIVERS - Dam-busters!
		For Egypt’s Aswan Dam, which harnessed the Nile floods, or Ghana’s Akosombo Dam, which flooded an area of the country the size of Lebanon, they amounted to a fundamental remaking of the geography of the country.
		The declared aim of the dam is to provide water for irrigation in the desert region of Gujarat state.
		Most dams and other river-engineering projects are construction boondoggles that fail to deliver what they promise and cause huge damage to ecological systems and human livelihoods.
	www.newint.org /issue273/dam.htm (1729 words)

	The Dam Busters (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dam Busters is a 1954 British war film, set during World War II, and documenting the true story of the RAF's 617 Squadron, the development of the "bouncing bomb", and Operation Chastise - the attack on the Ruhr dams in Germany.
		These scenes were cut from ITV's last showing of The Dam Busters after their previous broadcast received complaints for the use of the word nigger.
		The film's theme tune, The Dam Busters' March, by Eric Coates became an instant classic for brass band and can still be heard in football grounds during England Football Team matches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(movie) (891 words)

	Operation Chastise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The targets were the three key dams in the Ruhr area, the Möhne and the Sorpe on the Ruhr River and the Eder Dam on the Eder River.
		The Dams Raid enabled Churchill, in negotiations with the leaders of these new allies, to point to an effective strike against the hitherto apparently invincible German state so that he was taken more seriously as an ally than might otherwise have been the case.
		The Dams Raid was, like many of the air raids, undertaken with an ongoing view to the need to keep drawing German defensive effort back into Germany and away from actual and potential theatres of ground war, a policy which culminated in the Berlin raids of the winter of 1943–44.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Chastise (2248 words)

	Dam Busters The Reel Image Features
		The Dam Busters (1955) was one of the first-and remains among the best-of the films that re-create a wartime event by casting actors who resemble those who actually took part in it and using their real names.
		Bursting the dams meant inventing an eccentric sort of bomb; one that bounced along the surface of the water then sank against the dam wall; so backroom science had to link hands with front-line courage and this too, is what makes this story so gripping.
		The Dam Busters is also one of the few films that weigh wartime advantage against the conscience of a scientist; Redgrave's choked-back feelings as the casualties come in is a magnificent piece of emotional shorthand.
	www.thereelimage.co.uk /reviews/dambusters/dambusters.htm (969 words)

	::The Dambusters::
		An ‘Air Attack on Dams Committee’ was formed in 1941 under the chairmanship Dr. Pye.
		Wallis believed that if this could be done on the lakeside of the dam, the vast pressure applied to that side of the damaged wall would be enough to destroy the dam itself.
		To ensure that the bomb went down the dam wall, Wallis planned for the bomb to spin forwards after it had hit the wall — despite the fact that it would be dropped by a bomber spinning backwards.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /dambusters.htm (1522 words)

	Dam Busters
		The four lower Snake River dams, built in the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as other dams have been designed with features to aid both juvenile and adult fish.
		In the short term, when the dams are breached, the rapid lowering of the reservoirs could strand some fish in shallow pools that will eventually stagnate.
		The relative benefits of Alternative 4 (Dam Breaching) were dependent on assumptions about the quantity of differential delayed transport mortality and extra mortality assigned to the hydrosystem.
	www.mtmultipleuse.org /endangered/dam_removal.htm (1928 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Dam Busters
		The ascetic plot of THE DAM BUSTERS, however, has some interesting elements - Wallis' struggle with technical problems and red tape in the first part of the film is nicely contrasted with Gibson's training and the raid itself.
		The thing that put THE DAM BUSTERS in the annals of the seventh art is the raid scene that would decades later inspire George Lucas for the final battle in STARS WARS: A NEW HOPE.
		THE DAM BUSTERS ends with raid, being portrayed as successful; controversies of its overall success and true effectiveness of the Operation Chastise, as well as the effectiveness of the entire strategic bombing campaign, were left to future historians.
	all-reviews.com /videos-5/dam-busters.htm (853 words)

	DVD Film: The Dam Busters – The Dam Busters March by Eric COATES with additional music by Leighton LUCAS: Film Music ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Dam Busters is one of the classics of British cinema, and I can happily report that it still holds up as a great film today.
		There are three dams which contain water vital to the German armament industry - 100 tons of water being required to manufacture one ton of steel.
		Everyone knows "The Dam Busters March" by Eric Coates, so it may come as a surprise to find the score credited to Leighton Lucas, with Coates being credited just for the march.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2002/Jun02/Dam_Busters.html (765 words)

	The Dam Busters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Chastise, 617 Squadron's attack on German dams in World War II
		The 1951 book, The Dam Busters (book) by Paul Brickhill.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Dam_Busters (128 words)

	Cracking Dams: Dambusters
		The German dams provided hydroelectric power, water supply, a control of canal levels; thus a blow to the dams would be devastating to the Germans.
		A regular bomb would do no harm to the dams; the water would just cushion the impact unless the bomb was right up next to the dam.
		Explosives were planted and exploded in the grouting gallery and spillway with the intent to cause a catastrophic flood destroying towns, villages, other dams, and hydroelectric plants.
	simscience.org /cracks/dambusters.html (326 words)

	DVD Film: The Dam Busters – The Dam Busters March by Eric COATES with additional music by Leighton LUCAS: Film Music ...
		The Dam Busters is one of the classics of British cinema, and I can happily report that it still holds up as a great film today.
		There are three dams which contain water vital to the German armament industry - 100 tons of water being required to manufacture one ton of steel.
		Everyone knows "The Dam Busters March" by Eric Coates, so it may come as a surprise to find the score credited to Leighton Lucas, with Coates being credited just for the march.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /film/2002/Jun02/Dam_Busters.html (765 words)

	Dam Busters - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dam Busters - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Dam Busters, adopted name of 617 Squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF), the elite unit that dropped special “bouncing bombs” on the Ruhrdams in...
		As part of the strategy to win World War II, the British aimed to destroy the Ruhr Valley, Germany's industrial heartland, and thereby handicap its...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Dam_Busters.html (128 words)

	"The Dam Busters" (1955) - Comments and Inaccuracies
		Test dams and testing tank: The catapult shown for testing the bouncing bomb in the National Physical Laboratory's tank at Teddington is the original device; this is now owned by the RAF Museum, although it is currently on loan to the Barnes Wallis Collection at Elvington, nr.
		The dam models seen in the film are the actual briefing models made by the PRU at RAF Medmenham, although the Eder model was not completed in time so was not available to the crews; these are now held by the Imperial War Museum (the Möhne model is on display at their London site).
		The music: "The Dam Busters March" by Eric Coates is heard throughout the film; it appears to have been written for the film (one of few film commissions accepted by the composer), although some sources claim it was written earlier.
	www.computing.dundee.ac.uk /staff/irmurray/dambust.asp (2367 words)

	AVSIM Commercial Combat Add-on Review: Dam Busters
		So was born the concept to breach the dams which provided that energy.
		At the Sorpe Dam, McCarthy hit the parapet with his weapon but failed to breach the dam.
		The effect of the raid was much as had been hoped, with factories as far as 40 miles away flooded and a serious shortage of water providing a significant blow to German industry.
	www.avsim.com /pages/1202/dambusters/dambusters.html (1332 words)

	And You Call Yourself a Scientist! - The Dam Busters (1954)
		The Dam Busters is a film divided neatly into thirds: the development of Wallace’s theory, and the move from theory to reality; the creation and training of the 617 Squadron; and the mission.
		The Dam Busters opens in Barnes Wallace’s backyard, with the scientist using a jury-rigged catapult system to fire marbles across the surface of a small tank of water, his puzzled but intrigued children eagerly retrieving their father’s projectiles from various corners of the garden.
		The Dam Busters is that it offers, in the microcosm of Barnes Wallace’s story, a depiction of what scientists worldwide must have experienced during war-time: the moment at which their idea stopped being merely a fascinating theory, and became in truth the means of widespread destruction and the taking of human life.
	twtd.bluemountains.net.au /Rick/db.htm (2438 words)

	FlightSim.Com Review: Dam Busters
		The squadron was formed especially for the dams raid but - such was the unprecedented heights to which they had taken precision bombing - was kept on strength to be sent against a series of key strategic targets, all requiring pinpoint attacks.
		After the war, an Englishman visited one of the dams with an ex-Luftwaffe pilot, who commented that anyone attempting to attack it at 60 feet was either crazy, or an exceptional pilot.
		The flying challenges in the Dam Buster package are high and, just was with 617 pilots, training runs over the Derwent Dam are well worth the effort.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/review/dambust.htm (2393 words)

	The Dam Busters PC Game by JustFlight - Associated Content (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Dam Busters is a realistic recreation of World War II Dam Bombings in Germany.
		Dam Busters is an add-on for Combat Flight Sim 2 or Flight Sim 2000/2002.
		The Dam Busters is a recreation of many of the World War II Royal Air Force Command's 617 Squadrons actual bombing missions in Europe.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/11158/the_dam_busters_pc_game.html (431 words)

	Dam Busters, The - Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave 1954
		This film, with its unforgettable "Dam Busters March" by Eric Coates, recounts the story of the development of the bomb and the devising of special tactics for attacking Germany's industrial heartland.
		The great dams of western Germany, harnessing the energy of the rivers Moehne, Eder and Sorbe, were an important power source for the Nazi war effort.
		If the dams could be breached, then the loss of electrical energy and the collateral flooding would, it was hoped, cripple German industry and shorten the war.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/791 (2249 words)

	Peter Jackson to Remake 'The Dam Busters' - The Deadbolt
		Jackson has said he will try and make the remake of the Dam Busters "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible.
		In May, reports came out that said Jackson had teamed up with Sir David Frost, the man who owns the rights to the 1951 Paul Brickhill novel on which the original film was based.
		The movie was relatively accurate for the time period in which it was released, though the new remake looks to include information that has been declassified since the original film was made.
	www.thedeadbolt.com /news/111685/jacksondambusters.php (469 words)

	The Dam Busters
		You may have seen the movie The Dam Busters, whether this is true or not, I want to go over some aspects of it with you.
		They also had to bounce far enough so that they eventually came to land in front of the dam wall, so that when they exploded they would have the greatest impact on the dam.
		When these were lined up with the towers on the dam, then the aeroplane was exactly 1275ft from its target and the bombs could be dropped.
	www.shoners3.freeserve.co.uk /resources/stories/dam_busters.htm (738 words)

	Dam Busters reviewed at MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum - www.migman.com
		"The Dam Busters sim was the first one to involve multi-tasking.
		There was also the motor for spinning the bomb to the correct RPM which needed to be activated to make sure the bomb would skip rather than sink after release.
		You also had to use the 'Y' shaped bomb sight for gauging the release distance to the dam.
	www.migman.com /ref/1980_combat/DamBusters/Henderson_R.htm (346 words)

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		I would assume that 4-5 multiple PGM strikes at the same point and at least 1 on the control room would be a minimum In fact I would think that a tactical nuke dialed up for 3 Gorges would be better than targeting a city.
		Today three or four weapons could be dropped on the target, however, you would actually require a greater bomb to destroy the dam, as the upkeep (as the bouncing bomb was known) was designed to blow up under the water, and so use the effect of the water behind it.
		LogicRules RE:DAM BUSTER 4/25/2004 10:38:27 PM Actually, the Three gorges might come down on it own-Many people believe it'll go down in about 50 years, and it is in an earthquake and landslide prone area...
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/387-321.aspx (1494 words)

	Directory - Arts: Movies: Titles: D: Dam Busters, The
		Britmovie: The Dam Busters · iweb · cached · Synopsis, cast and crew.
		Some Notes on The Dam Busters · cached · Detailed comments and observations on the film, by L. Hurst.
		MusicWeb: The Dam Busters · Synopsis of the film, with emphasis on the music, including the famous 'Dam Busters March' by Eric Coates.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=944402 (181 words)

	FlightSim.Com Review: The Dam Busters
		The Dams Raid of 16th/17th May 1943 is undoubtedly the best-known bombing mission in the European Theatre during World War 2.
		After the Dams Raid proved Wallis' theories, his "big bomb" concept was re-awakened, the now-proven Lancaster being capable of carrying initially a scaled-down 6-ton version (Tallboy) and eventually (with further modification) the full 10-ton version (Grand Slam).
		Several minor dams in the Ruhr area were identified as secondary targets for 617 to attack on the same night (one of these was actually attacked by one of the reserve aircraft), but none of these dams are included in the package.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds/main/review/damb.htm (3017 words)

	Raids : Dam Busters 2 - World War Two
		The attack successfully breached the dam and caused widespread loss of life and destruction.
		Again and again, Brown and his crew dove towards the dam, trying to fly low enough and at the prescribed trajectory to release the bomb.
		The other dams would be attacked with the bouncing bomb but because the Sorpe was so thick, Brown had to hit the dam directly on its face, near the top.
	www.valourandhorror.com /BC/Raids/Dam_2.php (691 words)

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		A top achievement was the dam busting in the night between May 16 and 17 1943 by Lancasters of 617th Sqn.
		The "dam busters" were successful, but they lost 8 out of 19 planes.
		De "dam busters" hadden succes, maar ze verloren 8 van de 19 vliegtuigen.
	www.warprops.com /pag26.htm (180 words)

	BBC - Films - review - The Dam Busters
		The British are desperate to hit the steel-producing Ruhr Valley where it hurts and blowing the dams could cripple the German war effort.
		But no plane is yet big enough to carry the estimated 30 ton bomb needed and the accuracy demanded is almost impossible to achieve.
		On paper "The Dam Busters" is exciting but the film works brilliantly in allowing the suspense to slowly build as the viewer invests their hopes and fears into this remarkable story.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/07/17/dam_busters_review.shtml (331 words)

	Strategy First Dam Busters Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the night of 16th May 1943 nineteen specially adapted Avro Lancasters, led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson and crewed by the cream of Bomber Command, took part in the most famous raid of WWII on the d...
		On the night of 16th May 1943 nineteen specially adapted Avro Lancasters, led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson and crewed by the cream of Bomber Command, took part in the most famous raid of WWII on the dams that checked the waters of the River Ruhr.
		Their skill and bravery have gone down in history and even today?s 617 Squadron is known as The Dam Busters.
	www.pcgamereview.com /Simulation/Dam,Busters/PRD_155385_1457crx.aspx (292 words)

	"The true story of the Dam busters""
		There were at least one at each side of the lake close to the dam and at least four in each tower.
		Gibson felt like the dam, giant wall with scattered will'-o'-the-wisp, was going to crush him.
		The bomb was launched a split second too late and fell over the parapet on the power station at the base of the dam.
	www.flyandrive.com /dambusters2.htm (1706 words)

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