No. 617 Squadron RAF that New Zealand film director Peter Jackson and David Frost would co-produce a re-make of the film. It has been scripted by Stephen Fry and will be directed by Christian Rivers. The last living Dam Buster pilot at the time, New Zealander Les Munro (1919-2015), offered his services as a technical adviser. In 2010 the National Archives released documents that showed it was considered using 617 Squadron to target the Italian leader Mussolini in July or August 1943. The British believed if Mussolini was killed it might take Italy out of the war. It would have been a flight carried
No. 351 Squadron RAF the squadron was disbanded from the RAF on 16 May 1945, re-forming on 18 May 1945, with No. 352 Squadron RAF (352 Sqn), as 1st Fighter Regiment of the Yugoslav Air Force. No. 351 Squadron RAF No. 351 Squadron RAF (351 Sqn) was a Yugoslav-manned fighter-bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. The squadron was also known as Second NOVJ Squadron. Formed on 1 July 1944 at Benina in Libya from Yugoslav personnel, 351 Sqn was equipped with Hawker Hurricane IICs in the fighter-bomber role. In September the squadron re-equipped with Hawker Hurricane IVs and