Absolutely right, however you may find that the film has been re-dubbed for PC compliance in the western world and so the word is missing/replaced.

But, for the signallers amongst us, I believe they failed to re-dub the morse signal for a dam breach which is still sent as "nigger" for those who can read CW.

This might be interesting:
http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/st...ay/dambust.asp

Unfortunately the most misleading fact is the effect of the raid itself which caused relatively minor damage to German war industry; in a bit of strategic short-sightedness there were no follow-up raids, even minor nuisance attacks, so the dams were re-built in short order undisturbed.

The measured effect was limited to a moderate morale boost here, 27,000 people taken off other duties to rebuild and an allocation of 11,000 people to guard other German dams thereafter.

With the benefit of accurate records now, it is likely that the true analysis of the Dams Raid, when weighing the effort, material and personnel expended against the result, is probably failure; 33% of the "target" was wholly undamaged and the assumed effect on enemy industry did not happen.

This is no discredit to the combat crews but the competence of the raid planners in using both their intelligence inputs and effect assessment data is questionable, everyone seemed to get caught up in the novelty aspect and overlooked the real purpose; perhaps what we would call today, hype.

If anything the whole Dambusters thing has become a bit of a sacred cow and gathered its entourage of folk-lore, the true reality is somewhat different.

R.