325. Guy Gibson and the Dams Raid

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On May 16, 1943, one of the most daring raids of the war was launched. Operation Chastise, known in popular parlance as the Dam Busters Raid, saw 19 specially adapted Lancaster bombers attack three targets in the German industrial heartland, led by Guy Gibson. Al Murray and James Holland recorded this episode in Wing Commander Gibson’s office at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. We Have Ways is running a weekend festival from September 17th to 19th. There will be fifty military vehicles and a host of top speakers. Plus lashings of ale. Tickets can be booked here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/153466810361 A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Joey McCarthy Exec Producer Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Website: www.wehavewayspod.com Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:11.0	Achtung, Achtung. Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me, Almari and James Holland.
0:17.0	And we are on location, aren't we Jim?
0:20.0	Yeah, we are. We are. It's pretty special, aren't we? We're in Guy Gibson's office.
0:24.0	Well, I was going to do... I was going to do... Can you guess where we are?
0:28.0	I love this completely, Brian. You've completely absolutely trodden on it.
0:31.0	Because I was going to read out... I want to start again.
0:34.0	No, no, no, no, no, this is fine.
0:36.0	It's an outgoing cipher message from Headquarters Boma Command, James.
0:40.0	From Air Ministry Whitehall, degree of priority, most immediate.
0:45.0	Text to the message, most secret, operation chastise, immediate attack of targets X, Y, Z approved.
0:54.0	Execute at first suitable opportunity.
0:59.0	There we go.
1:00.0	And when was that first suitable opportunity?
1:02.0	Well, you're the expert, James. When was that for?
1:06.0	Well, Sunday, the 16th of May 1943.
1:08.0	Was that the first... Was that actually the first clear day they had?
1:11.0	Yeah, I think it was... I think it was all for the day before, if I remember rightly, or the Friday or something.
1:16.0	And I think they needed to sort of finally do get everything ready. What dates that?
1:20.0	15th. Yeah, okay, so it's a Saturday.
1:22.0	So that's interesting, isn't it? So they just got on with it.
1:25.0	They didn't... Yeah.
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