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The Dambusters Story: A Battle Against Time
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The Dambusters Story: A Battle Against Time

Historian Dan Snow hosts this three-part series that recounts World War II's most daring bombing raids. On the nights of May 16-17, 1943, Wing Commander Guy Gibson led No. 617 Squadron of the Royal Air Force on an audacious operation to destroy three dams in the Ruhr valley, the industrial heartland of Germany.

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