I'm Biting My Tongue Here -

Not Literally -
 - being a massive coward about pain and all that.  Getting the concept of "being reticent" across when you're actually working on a keyboard requires a bit of imagination.  "Diverting my digits" perhaps?
     "What is the semi-senile old buffoon on about now?  It's not those awful cod Japanese tanks from "The Fighting Seabees", is it, because he did at least get that right," I hear you ask.
     Here an aside.  The Seabees were also heavily involved in the Normandy invasion, D-Day and afterwards, helping to create the essential logistics infrastructure to support the Allied armies.  Art?

Son of a beach!

     Okay, what got me blinking in surprise and alarm, not to mention a touch of bemusement, was an advert in the MEN for "Titanic the musical", except I gave that copy away to an old lady at the bus stop, since it it was the City Edition that had an article about her daughter getting car-jacked :( - so no photo from the paper itself.  I can provide an acceptable subsitute.  Art?

                           Yes, twice.  I have to ensure I'm not dreaming this.
      
     As you ought to know by now, your humble scribe hates HATES HATES all musicals, so TTM was on a loser straightaway.  Besides which, is this really suitable for a musical - "Let's all sing jolly songs about hundreds drowning!" "And dance around perkily!" 
     Now, you can begin to see why I am desperately trying not to drown you in bombard you with all kinds of bad puns, because low-hanging fruit like this isn't really fair game.*
      Okay, time to throw the motley into A Moon-Shaped Pool!** and amble out into the dystopian wastelands of Conrad's mind.

The wasteland in question

More Of Matters Musical
Once again, I apologise for having this pop up in my mind, for no apparent reason.  Okay, way back in the Eighties, Sir John Peel would play anything that took his fancy, and your humble scribe would take note of tracks he was interested in.  One such group was Dissidenten, and their album "Sahara Elektrik".  Art?

Thus

     The album was done in collaboration by Dissidenten, who are contemporary German musicians, and Lemchaheb, a Moroccan band who sang the lyrics.  It really is excellent, lyrical, upbeat and different.  The problem, as both John and I found, is that it's all sung in Arabic, so neither of us knew what was being sung about.  The only words the two of us recognised were "courgette" and "lentil".  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKCeTWaPr8

     Therein the link to the title track itself.  Go and listen!

The Giant Aerial Mallets Take Flight Again
Sorry, that's one of Conrad's personal nicknames for Perfidious Albion's Lancaster Bomber, which was responsible for creating havoc over Occupied Europe in the Second Unpleasantness.  What did I spot in the MEN?

Probably not going to appeal much to a Teuton audience .....

     Although the tendency today is to play down the effectiveness of the Dambusters Raid, it did to tremendous damage to industry in the affected river valleys, setting production back by months.  It also forced the Nazi administration to undertake massive repair works immediately, regardless of any other circumstance, because the dams had to be fixed before river levels rose.  Lack of hydroelectric power affected industries for over a month, and huge areas of arable land were washed away, farming not recovering until the Fifties -
     - and all done by only 19 Giant Flying Mallets.***

I Don't Think That's Entirely Fair
You know Conrad is a sad old man when it comes to word puzzles, and after tackling the MEN's Cryptic Crossword, I usually go on to tackle the Codeword.  Art?

The easy version with 3 letters given

     The MEN version long ago switched to a variety where you only get a single vowel and consonant given to you.  Now, I wish to protest about one of the answers given:  MACAQUE.   I got it, eventually, because I'm immensely clever with words, yet what chance does someone like Zanda have? because her English is good but she's Latvian, not a native of these lands.   Oh - a macaque.

Thus!

*  Oh go on then - "Titanic the Musical" - set to the songs of Wet Wet Wet and Vanilla Ice.
**  With a hunting pack of hungry pike!
***  If you mess with Perfidious Albion, you're going to regret it.