Dog name

Very good point

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This is the last time I reply to this subject lol

Last week I was at Scampton for the Open day and one of the other visitors said something about the movie whilst a few of us were looking at N*****s grave, I hope if this person ever reads this he doesn't mind me quoting him, he said

"Reguardless of what the dogs name is, we lost 53 men in that raid, surely the movie should concentrate on that, not on a bloody name."

I agree to be honest, if people are ofended by a word, one which at the time wasn't seen as the offensive term it so clearly is nowadays, then I don't know what to say to you. Don't see the movie if it bothers you that much, or put your fingers in your ears lol I don't know ;o) lol It's just a word, its people, that have made it into an insult (or a greeting if we go by some people). At the end of day people need to make up their minds, either it is offensive or it isn't.

I wonder whay Guy Gibson would say if he knew the trouble his pets name was causing :D lol
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As everyone seems to be wetting themselves over the dogs name lets put things in perspective. Changing the name or bleeping it out is to distort history because the dogs name, Niger (had to mis-spell or be censored) was also the code word for the successful breaching of the Möhne Dam or MöhneSee Dam in German (translated Möhne Lake Dam). If the dam was not breached the code word was Gonner. After breaching the Möhne Dam the remaining aircraft of the Möhne formation then flew on to the Eder Dam. The first two mines failed to breach the dam, but shortly before 2am, when the third Lancaster had attacked, Gibson signalled the code-word Dinghy, indicating success with the second part of the operation. Other aircraft attacked the Sorpe and Schwelme Dams but did not succeed in breaching them.

When I was living in Germany for most of the 1990's I visited the Möhne Dam. There is a plaque on the dam giving a brief history of its construction but interestingly enough no mention of the air raid on the dam.

More on the raid & the dogs name at the following sites. The last one is the site of the Royal Air Force.

http://www.dambusters.org.uk/about.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/08/28/ dl2803.xml

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/latest-cinema-releases/4138-dam-bust ers-remake.html

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/h617.html

so here we are all this time later and it's still going.

On itv4 now and actually using the dogs real name

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Ironic then that you can use the freedoms that ALL those men and women died for, to sit comfortably in a chair decades later, defaming them Giorgio-39.

What have YOU done for freedom ?

REALLY??? So what else is new in the history of mankind?

NM

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Stephen Fry, who is writing the screenplay for the remake has confirmed the dog will be renamed.
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Aparrently the name has been changed from Nîgger to Digger