...Paul Brickhill, the author of the novel on which the movie [The Dambusters] was based.
And there was me thinking it was a true story.
"The Few" - They existed, and five hundred or so of them died in the Battle, and many more were grievously injured, some of them suffering to this day. Some of them were, and are, Americans; and South Africans, and Poles, etc. etc. We will be for ever in their debt. If they make a film about a man who was not one of The Few, and call it The Few, they are denigrating their memory, and their heroism, and his memory, and his heroism.