Dambusters - Atacking The Sorpe

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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History, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Dams Raid, in which Guy Gibson and 617 Squadron destroyed crucial German infrastructure using the innovative bouncing bomb - Al Murray and James Holland are presenting DAMBUSTERS WEEK. As Guy Gibson succeeds at the Möne Dam, all is not well with B Squadron. Joe McCarthy and Les Munro are faced with a nigh-on impossible task at the Sorpe, and struggle to breech the enormous structure. Why was this considered a secondary target, and why didn't it work? To watch EXCLUSIVE video content from this series, join our Patreon 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 and by the way Achtung.
0:15.0	It's been a great pleasure. We've seen our first time with the word verboten on it.
0:19.0	The verboten?
0:20.0	Well, so now we have a few.
0:25.0	We had a few evils yesterday.
0:27.0	And today we've found our first verboten. So we're all smiling.
0:30.0	We're all smiling.
0:31.0	Now, where are we, Jim?
0:32.0	We're at the Zorpadam. The Zobzi.
0:34.0	The Zobzi?
0:35.0	Yep.
0:36.0	Which stretches out before us.
0:37.0	A glorious pleasure lake and marina.
0:39.0	Yep.
0:40.0	To the right there and some sort of...
0:44.0	It curves on round.
0:45.0	It's a...curves on round.
0:46.0	It's a pleasant lake side houses.
0:48.0	It's a lovely spot, although it's bitterly cold here today.
0:52.0	And there you see a comorant, skimming low across the water.
0:56.0	Reminiscent of 617 Squadron. However, and this is some broadcasty segueing,
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