633 Squadron

World War II action-drama about a daring Allied air raid on a Nazi rocket fuel factory buried inside a seemingly impregnable fjord. The American wing commander leading the operation has only 17 days in which to train his bomber squadron and avert what the Norwegian resistance has warned will be an all-out V2 rocket bombardment of England., Dazzling aerial photography highlights this WWII saga of bold courage set against the war-torn skies of northern Europe., Norwegian Resistance fighters and British airmen plan a raid on a Nazi V2-rocket factory. Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy. Davis: Harry Andrews. Barrett: Donald Houston. Adams: Michael Goodliffe. Mary: Suzan Farmer. Directed by Walter Grauman., Norwegian Resistance fighters and British airmen plan a raid on a Nazi V2-rocket factory., Squadron 633 is better known by its US title, 633 Squadron (someone must have stayed up nights thinking of this alternate). For the purposes of box-office, American actor Cliff Robertson plays a Canadian airman, while George Chakiris, an American of Greek extraction, portrays a Norwegian resistance leader. Set during World War II, the story involves the efforts of twelve Mosquito aircraft pilots to destroy a mountain cliff in Norway, which in chain-reaction fashion will wreck a Nazi munitions factory situated on a fjord. James Clavell and Howard Koch adapted Squadron 633 from a novel by Frederick E. Smith., An RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway,, which is part of the Nazi effort to lauch rockets on England during D-day, by flying up a well-defended fjord at low level.