This mission was enshrined in fiction as the "Hambrucken raid" in Beirne Lay and Sy Bartlett's novel, "Twelve O'Clock High". It provides a reasonably accurate view of the thinking behind the planners' intention and the decisions that led to the abandonment of the goal of launching a double strike in such a way that the second strike would meet no aerial opposition; and of the action in the air itself. The Schweinfurt portion of the mission also formed the framework for the novel "The War Lover", by John Hersey. In the early 1990s, the raid was depicted for the first time in a video game, as a playable mission in "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe".