633 Squadron

633 Squadron is a World War II film directed by Walter Grauman and produced by Cecil F. Ford for United Artists in 1964 starring Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris and Harry Andrews. The script was adapted by author James Clavell and Howard Koch from an original novel by Frederick E Smith.

Story

After a Norwegian resistance leader reports to British Royal Air Force officials the location of a recently discovered German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the RAF's 633 Squadron (The squadron is fictional - there was no real 633 Squadron.) is assigned to destroy it. The plant, however, is in an impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it, a job that only the 633 Squadron's light Mosquito aircraft are capable of.

Related Topics:
Norwegian resistance - Royal Air Force - V-2 rocket - Fjord

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The squadron go on training for their mission in Scotland, where there is a similar feature.

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The Norwegian resistance are tasked with destroying the anti-aircraft defences around the factory, but fail, meaning that the squadron has to attack with the defences intact. In the end only one aircraft survives, but the factory is destroyed.

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