Star Wars and the Dam Busters

12/3/2014

On May 16, 1943 nineteen bomber crews departed Britain in route for Germany’s Ruhr Valley. These brave men were tasked with destroying Hitler’s dams in a series of attacks that required new, ingenious technologies. The mission was daring, bold, and practically impossible. Learn how their story inspired one of the greatest space battles in film history, the attack on the Death Star.