Posted on 04/21/2017 4:24:46 AM PDT by DFG
Photographs described by experts as 'extremely rare' which show the damage wreaked by the famous Dam Busters in World War II are to be auctioned next week. The aerial shots taken by German Intelligence depict the Möhne and Edersee Dams before the raid and after they were breached by the ingenious bouncing bomb, designed by Barnes Wallis, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley. Operation Chastise, as the famous raid was officially known, was an attack on major dams in Germany's industrial heartland carried out on 16-17 May 1943 by the Royal Air Force's renowned 617 Squadron, based at Scampton, Lincolnshire.
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I see this and then i was thinking about Oroville dam again.
What was the code word for a successful mission!
Hint: It was the dog’s name back at the air base, the dog that got hit by the car!
The dam busters had a bigger part in WWII and it wasn’t even in Europe. The bouncing bombs weighed so much that a new heavy bomb rack was needed, one that could carry nearly ten tons. So they built them. Fast forward to the Manhattan project. Our people realized that we had no bomb racks in the US inventory with enough capacity to hold the atomic bombs. Making new ones would have delayed the whole program. But somebody realized the British had the racks with the capacity we needed. Story goes that when we got the racks we didn’t tell the British why we wanted them.
Bingo.
Personally, I say thank God for Sir Arthur Harris and all his courageous aircrew!
LOL. Political correctness at it’s worst.
No those are “bounding antipersonnel land mines aka castration mines &/or silent sentries.
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