The Dambusters - Gibsons attack

From the 1955 classic war movie ’The Dambuster’s. Wing Commander Guy Gibsons Lancaster crew attacks the Mohne dam while under fire from the dams defences. The late actor Richard Todd, who portrays Wing Commander Gibson in this movie, was himself a veteran of WW2, having taken part in the capture of Pegasus bridge in the early hours of D-Day, as a member of the Parachute Regiment. Todd would go on to star in the movie ’The Longest day’, playing the part of Major John Howard - the man who led the actual assault on Pegasus bridge who, in real life, Todd met during his wartime assault on the bridge itself. Richard Todd. You were one of Britains finest actors. To me, you will always be Wing Commander Guy Gibson!