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* EqualOpportunityEvil: The Gestapo agent who tortures Bergman is a woman.
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* AirstrikeImpossible: One of the the two {{Trope Maker}}s along with ''Film/TheDamBusters'' (which together inspired the TropeCodifier, ''Film/ANewHope''. The German factory is at the far end of a narrow fjord, with anti-aircraft guns all along it. It is in a cave under overhanging rock. The rock protects the factory from being bombed from above. However, if the overhang can be bombed ''at its base'', then it will break off the mountain wall and bury the factory.
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* AirstrikeImpossible: One of the the two {{Trope Maker}}s along with ''Film/TheDamBusters'' (which together inspired the TropeCodifier, ''Film/ANewHope''.''Film/ANewHope''). The German factory is at the far end of a narrow fjord, with anti-aircraft guns all along it. It is in a cave under overhanging rock. The rock protects the factory from being bombed from above. However, if the overhang can be bombed ''at its base'', then it will break off the mountain wall and bury the factory.
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* AirstrikeImpossible: One of the the three two {{Trope Codifier}}s, which Maker}}s along with ''Film/TheDamBusters'' helped inspire (which together inspired the third, TropeCodifier, ''Film/ANewHope''. The German factory is at the far end of a narrow fjord, with anti-aircraft guns all along it. It is in a cave under overhanging rock. The rock protects the factory from being bombed from above. However, if the overhang can be bombed ''at its base'', then it will break off the mountain wall and bury the factory.
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* WeaponsUnderstudies: While the eight De Havilland Mosquitoes used in the film are the genuine article, no German aircraft of the right types were available. The Bf 109s in the film are portrayed by Nord Pingouins, a French copy of the Bf 108 Taifun (which was frequently used as a stand-in during the period).
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''633 Squadron'' is a 1956 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII novel by former [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Air Force]] officer Creator/FrederickESmith. It is [[AdaptationDisplacement better-known]] for TheFilmOfTheBook, directed by Creator/WalterGrauman and released in 1964 by UsefulNotes/UnitedArtists.
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''633 Squadron'' is a 1956 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII novel by former [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Air Force]] officer Creator/FrederickESmith. It is [[AdaptationDisplacement better-known]] for TheFilmOfTheBook, directed by Creator/WalterGrauman and released in 1964 by UsefulNotes/UnitedArtists.
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''633 Squadron'' is a 1956 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII novel by former [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Air Force]] officer Creator/FrederickESmith. It is [[AdaptationDisplacement better-known]] for TheFilmOfTheBook, directed by Creator/WalterGrauman and released in 1964 by UsefulNotes/UnitedArtists.
In 1944, a squadron of Mosquito fighter-bombers is ordered to attack a German rocket fuel factory, which is located at the far end of a heavily-defended fjord in occupied Norway.
In the film, "633" is consistently pronounced as "six three three," not as "six hundred and thirty-three."
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!!Tropes in the book and film:
* AirstrikeImpossible: The German factory is at the far end of a narrow fjord, with anti-aircraft guns all along it. It is in a cave under overhanging rock. The rock protects the factory from being bombed from above. However, if the overhang can be bombed ''at its base'', then it will break off the mountain wall and bury the factory.
* AnyoneCanDie: People start dying before the mission even starts. For variety, one is blinded.
* BittersweetEnding: The mission is successful, but at great cost: [[spoiler:all of the planes are lost, and the crews who do not die will become prisoners. The Norwegian resistance cell is discovered by the Germans, and wiped out]].
* ColdEquation: [[spoiler:A Norwegian resistance member who knows about the operation is captured by the Germans. Roy Grant has to bomb Gestapo HQ in Bergen before they can make him talk, and blow the whole mission]].
* EagleSquadron: The lead pilot is Roy Grant, an American. He tells a Norwegian refugee that before the war he was a barnstormer, and he signed up because he needed something to do after the barnstorming company folded. The film is silent on why he stayed on with the RAF after Pearl Harbor.
* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:The only members of 633 Squadron and the Norwegian resistance cell still alive or uncaptured are staff officers and ground crew that never left England.]]
* TheFilmOfTheBook: The more famous film is based on a novel, which was loosely based on a number of real RAF strike missions, particularly the air raids against the ''Bismarck''-class battleship ''Tirpitz''.
* LaResistance: The mission is planned in cooperation with a cell of Norwegian resistance fighters.
* WeHaveReserves: After the mission, one of the ground officers asks the base commander "All that sacrifice, what does it add up to?" The commander replies "A successful mission."
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''633 Squadron'' is a 1956 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII novel by former [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Air Force]] officer Creator/FrederickESmith. It is [[AdaptationDisplacement better-known]] for TheFilmOfTheBook, directed by Creator/WalterGrauman and released in 1964 by UsefulNotes/UnitedArtists.
In 1944, a squadron of Mosquito fighter-bombers is ordered to attack a German rocket fuel factory, which is located at the far end of a heavily-defended fjord in occupied Norway.
In the film, "633" is consistently pronounced as "six three three," not as "six hundred and thirty-three."
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!!Tropes in the book and film:
* AirstrikeImpossible: The German factory is at the far end of a narrow fjord, with anti-aircraft guns all along it. It is in a cave under overhanging rock. The rock protects the factory from being bombed from above. However, if the overhang can be bombed ''at its base'', then it will break off the mountain wall and bury the factory.
* AnyoneCanDie: People start dying before the mission even starts. For variety, one is blinded.
* BittersweetEnding: The mission is successful, but at great cost: [[spoiler:all of the planes are lost, and the crews who do not die will become prisoners. The Norwegian resistance cell is discovered by the Germans, and wiped out]].
* ColdEquation: [[spoiler:A Norwegian resistance member who knows about the operation is captured by the Germans. Roy Grant has to bomb Gestapo HQ in Bergen before they can make him talk, and blow the whole mission]].
* EagleSquadron: The lead pilot is Roy Grant, an American. He tells a Norwegian refugee that before the war he was a barnstormer, and he signed up because he needed something to do after the barnstorming company folded. The film is silent on why he stayed on with the RAF after Pearl Harbor.
* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:The only members of 633 Squadron and the Norwegian resistance cell still alive or uncaptured are staff officers and ground crew that never left England.]]
* TheFilmOfTheBook: The more famous film is based on a novel, which was loosely based on a number of real RAF strike missions, particularly the air raids against the ''Bismarck''-class battleship ''Tirpitz''.
* LaResistance: The mission is planned in cooperation with a cell of Norwegian resistance fighters.
* WeHaveReserves: After the mission, one of the ground officers asks the base commander "All that sacrifice, what does it add up to?" The commander replies "A successful mission."
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