Dam Busters Declassified

00:00:03 'The RAF's last air-worthy Lancaster Bomber.

00:02:46 'as a piece of wartime storytelling.

00:04:58 being shot at, and not being able to see out, either.

00:07:45 But, of course, it's very challenging flying this low.

00:09:57 'He once flew down it in a Harrier Jump Jet at night at 400 miles an hour.

00:12:13 Almost impossible.

00:14:15 'The secret to its operation

00:16:42 and sacrifice

00:19:35 'But on the German side, the consequences of that raid were catastrophic

00:22:35 Just imagining that with all of those lives, all of those crews.

00:25:12 were more for arrogance than they were for anything else.

00:27:35 He used to go to all her plays

00:30:04 Which, on one hand, was very, very dangerous...

00:32:25 then there were a lot of people who didn't believe in that war.

00:34:45 'and across the vast expanse of the Lincolnshire Fens.'

00:37:01 'That's because the Lancaster that Jack Liddell was aboard, piloted by Robert Barlow

00:39:29 'in what surely must be one of the greatest escapes of the war.

00:41:45 'He's right, of course.

00:44:22 'which presented the maximum opportunity to damage the British war effort.

00:47:02 'This journey of about two miles probably saved her life.

00:49:43 And, of course, to them it was. The raid was successful

00:52:26 who were just doing a job and did it really well

00:55:46 You guys really do have the best job in the world.

53:06:01 were already dead.