1943 Operation Chastise: The Dam Busters Raid | DCS Reenactment Mission

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[@ChimaeraTom]

back in the day i dont know how those Lancasters even took off with the sheer weight of those guys' giant brass balls

[@grimreapers]

yup

[@yuuzyerbrejn9603]

Cap screaming at the lights...priceless! Don't EVER do that again, too stressful. I mean- Do it again soon, hilarious!

[@jeffreyhallam5517]

Dude, You gotta drive that thing like a submarine in that situation. The window was not helping you. Fly on instruments. Use dead reckoning for getting there. You have a navigator acting as the bridge quartermaster. Give headings and speed changes. Repeat ships status reports regularly for the watch team so they can give vocal back up. Give rudder changes and ‘steady on’ headings. I promise this game’s map feature is already letting you cheat. Trust your instruments because they are way more reliable than your eyes on a night mission.

[@thegungadfly8930]

That is the kind of co-pilot/Nav to have. Auntie : “ummm mind the trees. “ Capt: “Arrrg! I’m blind! I’m Blind! Auntie: Come to course 030. Oh mind the trees”. Capt: Arrgue! (Indefinite squealing)

[@cousinjack2841]

Nothing like a stressed out Cap to set me up for the rest of the day; that was awesome. Love it when Caps is screaming like an over heated pressure cooker and Aunty is "Hello Mr Pickles; oooh; egg and cress" in the background. What a team! Thanks guys.

[@hephaestus4587]

Oh my goodness, hearing Cap panic is just about the funniest thing heard. Bravo everyone.... loved this one.

[@fredericlepeltier3435]

Comparing this to the trench run in star wars is actually spot on. To edit the movie while waiting for FX and models shots Lucas used bit and parts of "The Dambusters" movie and used it as a canvas for his death star trench run. One clu and easter eggs of that left in the movie is in that bit of dialogue copied word for word from "The Dambusters" : "- How many guns? - I don't know, some in the fields, some on the towers." Refering to the two towers on the dam in one movie, and to the turbolasers towers in SW. (had to pinch myself when i finally got the chance to watch the Dambusters). Also "633 squadron", an other war film, has a "fjord run" to hit a special target with mosquitoes facing a lot of flak similar to the dambusters and SW.

[@whousley]

I remember on Dam Busters how one of the bouncy bombs bounced over the top of the dam and detonated on the ground behind. On the SW trench run one of their bombs hit near the entrance to the exhaust port.

[@Decrepit_biker]

I can't believe Auntie came back for more after the jailbreak mission 🤣🤣🤣

[@grimreapers]

agree

[@Shrimping]

I’d fly with Aunty any day, calm and controlled all the way into the ground.

[@rubiconnn]

I think he was a little drunk haha

[@thegreatlongdingo]

Cheers to you Aunty

[@thephantom2man]

He really wasnt on the ball 😅

[@Madeyes6]

Watching that shows more than ever the bravery & skill of the crews who flew these missions. Is there not a way to get a full moon for this raid? I’m sure they flew in a full moon specifically for this raid. They were flying up firebreaks in the forests so they must’ve been able to see the ground & trees.

[@Power5]

Correct. The moon was almost full on May 16th 1943 so that should have helped visibility a great deal. And the weather was "good", whatever that means in WW2 air attack strategy. Also, seeing with human eyes at night would be a whole lot easier than DCS has ever been able to replicate. Could also be the compression of YT making it worse.

[@1milesnpr]

This would be an absolute meal for F-111C/G's That would be a cool reenactment. On another, related note, my neighbour when I was a kid was one of the Dambusters. Led my Uncle to become a fighter pilot who flew F-86's, Mirage 3 and then retired after bringing the F/A18 into service in the RAAF. My other brother flew F-111's until he died in a training incident in Armidale. I always wanted to be a fighter pilot but, not smart enough. Ended up as a shooter in Australian SF.

[@ctomz.]

This was both hilarious and epic! Thanks for the ride Cap

[@mfreed40k]

Gentlemen this was a hilarious video. You two need your own mosquito series. I'd pay.

[@questioneverything4633]

That second crash was too real

[@dachlatte]

I cant decide if Aunty was helpful or not. In any case it was very entertaining :D

[@lancesmith1925]

Those spot lights....I haven't laughed that hard in ages. But most importantly, did Aunty figure out why the rear light was red instead of green? Great stuff as always!

[@grimreapers]

she did not!

[@romandeniskin8818]

Well she could change the bottom light, rear lights are preset in the mission as now.

[@christopherhanton6611]

me too

[@AnvilAirsoftTV]

Well worth reading Max Hastings book on the mission. Fascinating and difficult reading.

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@davidgermain]

if you get the chance go to the Ladybower Reservoir and see and stand in the space they trained in. it's shocking and inspiring at the same time.

[@nickjoy8868]

Best video I've ever seen on YT by miles. Dambusters fact for you; on a training mission Joe McCarthy was flying at 60ft over countryside when there was a great noise as Les Munro went BENEATH him and overtook him- be astounded. Only twigs were hurt in this stunt, a few brought back in radiators!

[@silasbland4515]

I am binge watching the GR DCS videos. Although this video was posted over a year ago, this is perhaps the one of the funniest videos I have ever scene. Cap and Aunty, thank you for nearly an hour of hilarity and tears of laughter.

[@tomriley5790]

Great mission - brings it home just how difficult it was, love the contrast between how auntie is so chilled and cap is super stressed :-)!

[@ADPeguero]

@45:58, Aunty, that was cool man: "He's so low, he could do a limbo under a snake's belly while he's wearing a top hat." Hahahahahaha! That was a good one.

[@jonathanchalk2507]

The valued viewers insist that you have another go, great suspense.

[@FuriouslyFurious]

This was great! As soon as those spot lights blinded you I laughed my a$$ off.

[@terohyvonen]

Sterile cockpit rule and crew resource management were still in the distant future those times.

[@krismurphy7711]

The Real Raid Casualties.... Almost 50% lost....TOUGH MISSION IN REAL LIFE...." 2 hit power lines outbound; 3 shot down outbound; 3 returned without attacking; 11 attacked; 1 shot down over target; 2 shot down homebound; 8 attacked target and returned."

[@exAirMover]

The sound of the two Merlins on flybys is awesome as ever 😊

[@jugganaut33]

I don’t think This mission can really be appreciated in mosquitos. There was no power assisted Flight instruments on the Lancaster. Fighting a 17 ton bomber with 10 tons of explosives at 100ft in the dark…for 2 and a half hours. Is just not the same as flying a 6 ton bomber that was designed for low altitude ops. Dam busters were hard bastards.

[@tando6266]

I have had the pleasure to meet some of the air crew from this unit. By the end of the war the aircrew had a 100% casualty rate, literally everyone who flew was wounded at least once or killed.

[@rnash999]

That was just insane.

[@kenhelmers2603]

Constant grin, interrupted with outright laughter! Thanks GR

[@TheBenno85]

Man this stuff makes me nerd out so hard, bring on the boom boom

[@danielclaudio5764]

Just finished watching the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe and feel so much over the ukrainian crisis after checking the news again i went to you cap. i enjoy your videos and they are getting me through all of this while i am overwhelmed with feelings.

[@philipzielinski]

Auntie is way too casual for a navigator. Gave me anxiety the whole time. Cap: WHATS MY ALTITUDE! WHEN DO I TURN?! Auntie: ehhh. Let me see. Um. Well it says 1050 feet there but it’s really 150 feet. Oh, you need to turn in threeeeeeee …….. twoooo… one. Turn turn turn!

[@streetcop157]

Great piece of history and shifted the power structure of the Nazi party…..there were several high ranking party members who were high ranking because they operated industry in the ruer valley….some suffered “accidents” several decided to explore travel opportunities elsewhere, most lost their remaining industry to the reich. A couple opened “ bicycle factories “ in South America spearheading the rat lines.

[@Tareezo]

I believe the VSI is hidden by the HUD boxes. If you lean to the left, you'll be able to see it on the dash. Top row.

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@alogie]

Cap is cool as a cucumber as always.😄

[@grimreapers]

lol

[@BrioPA]

There was a smaller variant of the bouncing bomb, code-named Highball, developed for the Mosquito.

[@benwiggins6162]

So glad I got to watch this Cap. Thank you again for the link

[@cameron1975williams]

When Cap reads out the stats in the brief it's rather sobering.

[@grimreapers]

Brave men in WWII

[@collewis6681]

Stay on target. Two many guns Stay on target. We are approaching the target.

[@Spartan3179]

This reminds me of a game we played in school, we would see how far we could walk a given area with our eyse closed and see who had the nerve to go furthest. :)

[@nigeldepledge3790]

The idea of a Mozzy carrying an Upkeep made me LOL.

[@danamacinnis3065]

It would be great to see this played where all four planes had all of their interior and exterior lights turned off. I am positive it would make a a significant difference in the spot lights and tracer fire homing in on you.

[@chrismaynardTVCC]

Cap: Am I on heading? Aunty: You're definitely giving head Cap:.....that's excellent news! 😅😅😅😅

[@Perktube1]

Excellent! Now do the Bridge Busters mission.

[@angelarch5352]

PS: also, we only got to hear cap screaming in the cockpit for this mission (which was hilarious), I wish we could also get the videos of the other guys screaming in their cockpits-- and which pilot team was totally cool all the way through if any haha! :D

[@whitgrebitus]

This might be the best mission I've seen - great stuff Cap

[@RogueWraith909]

Shame they haven't added the Lancaster yet. Such an iconic aircraft!

[@grimreapers]

yeh

[@nickjoy8868]

@@grimreapers undoubtedly, then you'll have the proper aircraft to give you a real feel of the skill of these men- they were flying at 200-220 mph, you were doing 280!

[@ThePaulv12]

There was runway side lighting you know and it can be turned on and off LOL. In real life many lightly trafficked country airports have pilot activated runway lighting. What you do to turn it on is tune the local frequency for the airport and when about 3 miles away click the radio push to talk button 3x and it turns on. It auto turns off after about half an hour or something.

[@thomasroth4695]

The Altitude😂😂😂. How does a Norden bomb sight work ???? Guys had me crying. Look out the window cant see anything. That bomber jacket black out the instruments nice. Video games are only so good. Lots of laughs thankx

[@GrumpyGamerGuy]

Ok Cap, I do believe this has aged well, and deserves a new attempt :) Very fun to watch, need a redo!!

[@ejjojo295]

Amazing! I want a Cap and Aunty series of missions!

[@mikedavis1127]

Seeing a tracer skip on a ricochet was always a situationally interesting thing, never would have thought a video game would have ever accurately modeled that

[@FooBarr68]

Epic video, i was laughing all the way through. kudos gents... kudos

[@Murdo2112]

0430 in the morning and I'm yelling at the top of my voice "he's got his feckin' light on again!"

[@kevinturner6621]

Strong sense of PANIC!

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Cap : Terrified already. How on Earth did they do this? Well, they did have about two months of low-level and night-flying training, plus a couple of weeks on a simulated dam attack. But they also had to be more accurate on releasing their Upkeep mine. If memory serves, the mine had to be released at 240 mph, at exactly 60 feet above the water, and at a specific distance from the target dam (I don't remember what this distance was, but I think it was in the vicinity of 200 - 300 yards).

[@michaelrowland4021]

Great video Cap, why not put beacons on the center line for each leg. Then you can follow the beacons to the dam. I know they didn't do this, set a warning with a five second count down when over two hundred feet. This might give you a good chance at making it.

[@grimreapers]

Good idea!

[@nigeldepledge3790]

In the actual raid, two Lancs hit electricity pylons. One hit the sea, losing its Upkeep, but continued flying and was able to RTB. One Lanc was shot down by flak over the Dutch coast.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Another Lanc or two got shot down before reaching the targets. And at least another two Lancs were lost during the actual attacks. One, at the Möhne dam, mistimed the release of the Upkeep, and the mine detonated at the top of the dam, damaging the Lanc that had dropped it.

[@nickjoy8868]

@@nigeldepledge3790 I believe it was John Hopgood in M Mother who released too early as his bomb aimer was hit by flak on the bomb run, the bomb exploded on the power station past the dam and blew up setting the Lanc alight, could be wrong but one of the 3 crash survivors came from this aircraft as Hoppy pulled her up as hard as he could to give his crew at least a minimal chance of bailing out.

[@rossknowles5608]

a close friend of the family made it back from this. i always remember being a bit miffed as a youngster that the photo of him and his colleagues assembled under a bomber that was on his wall, turned up in a magazine about warfare/weapons that a class mate brought in one day. like... why is my 'uncle' in this magazine? oh...ok.

[@DirkGently1972]

Cap should’ve eaten some carrots before take-off then turned up the gamma during the flight! 😉😆

[@winstonsmith8441]

Cap is a sound effect machine!

[@yjwrangler7819]

As someone that's helped restore a Lanc? Totally down for this! LET'S GO!

[@grimreapers]

cool

[@grimwoody9481]

Pure entertainment...thanks guys

[@lostsoul4680]

The germans also captured an unexploded mine from on of the downed bombers.

[@David-tm9wi]

Best on KZbin

[@bmw540i]

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, our chief weapons are surprise and Mr Pickles

[@stevechurch4728]

"hope he has little cotton socks" hahaha.... peach.

[@melanicwhoosh]

20 minutes of staring at a dark screen followed by 100 seconds of spotlights, screaming, destruction and hilarity. +1

[@philcourteney4328]

“Good thing you’re not a square wave…” 🤣👌

[@christopherhanton6611]

good video but in the war the pilots in those mosquitoes had deal with those Real Lights and aa all the time

[@haakonsteinsvaag]

True, but as far as I know, they did not fly that low at night. Also no restriction on course or altitude.

[@chrismoule7242]

My father taught me a trick - if you are being blinded by lights, close one eye and that eye will be better adjusted to the dark when the lights go off.

[@lililililililili8667]

I like how this game doesn't reinvent the German flag on the briefing screen.

[@Wolfe351]

first run was insane!!

[@mrvertigo23]

Be interesting to see how you would have done with a navigator ;)

[@DogzBolloxz]

😂😂😂funny as fck... I lost it when Cap started chomping his control stick in frustration😂😂😂

[@patricktracy4371]

Sporting a diamond cutter

[@jameshewitt8828]

You and your nav crack me up so much. So much like me and my wife in the car

[@romandeniskin8818]

Spacechef and me went high to bail out, been hit in the cockpit and Spacechef was bleeding out and losing consciousness.

[@grimreapers]

Ah! We assumed you forgot about ceiling... xx

[@avecchi220]

"How on earth did they do this?" I would imagine they did it very carefully!

[@RichardLangis]

...oh dear.

[@trevorday7923]

And of course in real life 617 Squadron not only carried Barnes Wallace's bouncing bombs, they were also lugging the sheer weight of their absolutely IMMENSE balls

[@rogerrussell5155]

Excellent

[@plushiie_]

Yeees more mosquito missions xD

[@Tenchigumi]

When the average person dies, they might say "I see the light." When Cap dies, he'll scream "I'M BLIND! I'M BLIND!"

[@geofevans2921]

Do it again with Bostons ... make the route a *little* wider, and have Mosquitos fly escort "Wild Weasel" ... and have a FEW of those spotlights for the Mossies to take out. Because a couple of lights would be hilarious, just have one at each point on the OUTSIDE of the corner, not the inside. Maybe, say, 3 or 4 TOTAL along the entire route. So entertaining.

[@johnhodgson4216]

Yes, This Video Repeated will be more fun, This was a fun video.

[@deetwodcs4683]

Uhh, Cap. Mate, turn your gamma up. ;)

[@grimreapers]

meh cheating...

[@lcparq1]

Very nice indeed. Just one quick questiom Boys... why so much pitch wobbling? The Mossie was a really stable platform, even at tree top altitudes... Gtrat show Reapers!!!

[@jeremyparker9749]

I feel like cap needs a tea maid to pour tea into his mouth while he flys missions like this

[@grimreapers]

Wife would never agree to this...

[@angelarch5352]

wow so stressful to watch even haha! I am now very curious if an F-16 or F-18 or Harrier could do this:D (EDIT: please also try Viggen, M-2000, A-10 and Su-25 - Su-27, and Su-30 mod with aunti in copilot seat to the list:)

[@samb5096]

Ok so now I need a drunken mission orrrrr a replica of a Harrison Ford crash landing.

[@Slikx666]

Don't forget if you are captured by the enemy, you need to set for a glass of water. 😃👍

[@paulybassman7311]

A TSR2 would ace that canyon run. What about a Tornado GR ?

[@gregall2178]

This is comedy gold :-D

[@michaelmiles933]

This is the funniest episode I've seen

[@KaldekBoch]

Whilst I'm not subscriber, I get Grim Repears videos in my feed every now and then. When I do, they are always of you guys getting the absolute shite kicked out of you. I mean...is that what's popular?

[@grimreapers]

It's what ppl want to see apparently.

[@chrismoule7242]

Indeed it is. Only then do we get the "best" out of Cap.

[@geofevans2921]

Clearly you don't understand comedy. Are you a "win win win or I cry a lot" type ?

[@hugostiglitz7373]

Hey Cap, this is just good training for any potential Flight of the Intruder remake. 😉

[@grimreapers]

agree

[@cousinjack2841]

Off to watch 633 squadron now.

[@samanazimi5087]

Remember that winwing technology is your ultimate hardware solution :) 57

[@grimreapers]

yes