633 Squadron(1964): Canyon Run To Destroy Rocket Fuel Factory | DCS Reenactment Mission 

i agree. Suiciding is fine in the more casual missions but when everyone starts doing it always, it kind of takes away from the realism.

This. The suiciding really took away from an otherwise excellent mission.

Nice, yeah that’s the kind of thing I was going for, this one was incredibly hard to judge getting the balance right so that all of the objectives were complete but with heavy losses to blue, the ramming threw in some unexpected advantages for Red but blues just scraped through but the skin of their teeth and of course somehow it was Cap completing both objectives. The mission was nearly lost several times but you can’t kill a squadron!

got to be good at something...

Actually, New Hope was inspired by similar movie: The Dambusters. 633th Squadron is similar, but the inspiration came from the Lancasters destroying the Rurh dams

I was just about to mention the strong star wars vibe...awesome!!!

Yep - Lucas ripped every decent movie moment that came before... including Tarzan and Jane. I thought everyone knew that :)

@@FildasKirk As the VV (named onscreen) who first called in the Op; the son of a TV/cinema industry professional of some significance (i.e. he has a Wikipedia page), active at he time, in the same general milieu as many of the production staff of both '633 Squadron' and subsequently also 'Star Wars' (as it used to be called, back when C3P0 had TWO gold legs), allow me to comment on this. While I grant that the (print and broadcast) MSM introduction of S/Wars to the generally-unaware general public, named the (lowest commonly-known historical denominator) 'Dam Busters' raid as being the movie's principal inspiration (discounting Edgar Rice Burroughs' long pre-existing 'John Carter of Mars' stories, of course, with all their exotic alien princesses and diversely bizarre characters, facing-off against overbearing warmongering tyrants, on a planet, a while back, and more than a little distance away; which of course had nothing at all to do with it), it both was (at the time, to those 'in the trade' as it were) and remains obvious to anyone familiar with both movies, today, that (as George Lucas himself admitted) the climactic 'trench run' under heavy ground-fire was not merely 'inspired by' but was more or less an exact steal from '633 Squadron's suicidally-heroic do-or-die attack through the Norwegian fjord.

nice

Always listen to the brief! 😁

Thanks!

This was super fun :)

Yeh that was fun yo.

😉

Spacechef!