Guy Gibson - Legacy

Legacy

• A 1955 film, The Dam Busters, was made of the exploits of 617 Sqn; Gibson was played by Richard Todd in the film.
• Paintings of Gibson feature on the wall of the bar of the Olde Crown pub in Lincoln, a pub that Gibson frequented regularly when he was based at RAF Scampton.
• Gibson had a black Labrador called 'Nigger' - killed in a car accident the morning before the air raid and buried on the base just outside Gibson's office. 'Nigger' was the codeword Gibson used to confirm the breach of the Möhne Dam.
• There is a Blue plaque outside a house on Aberdeen Place, off Edgware Road in London commemorating his occupancy there for a short time in 1943.
• There is a Blue plaque outside a house on Archer Road, Penarth, South Wales commemorating his residency there between 1940 and 1943.
• Guy Gibson's RAF flight log is on display at the Windsor Castle public house on Crawford Street, London.
• Guy Gibson appears in Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships as an alternative history version of himself who leads the "Chronic Expeditionary Force" back in time from 1944 to the Paleocene Era.