| 1 | * DawsonCasting: Wing Commander Guy Gibson is played by Richard Todd, who was 36. Gibson was 24. |
| 2 | * DevelopmentHell: The remake was announced in 2008 as a pet project of Christian Rivers, who has the unenviable distinction of being the director of ''Film/MortalEngines'', the biggest box office bomb in history. A decade later and nothing has come of it. |
| 3 | * ReferencedBy: The Death Star attack sequence in ''Film/ANewHope'' is famously an almost shot-for-shot {{homage}} to the AirstrikeImpossible sequence in this film, due to Creator/GeorgeLucas making his production crew watch this film and ''Film/SixThreeThreeSquadron'' as reference material. In fact, footage from ''The Dam Busters'' was used in early cuts as a stand-in for the trench run while the special effects were being developed. |
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