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  • Dambusters heroes

    08/30/2013 9:40:21 AM PDT · by Lorianne · 15 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 27 August 2013
    Flying Officer Harold Hobday, navigator I don't think any of us expected to get through, really, because so many of our friends had been shot down or gone missing or simply had accidents. The percentage was very high. I'm surprised I got through. All the same, I don't think people took special precautions - making wills - I certainly didn't. Wing Commander Guy Gibson Hoppy Hopgood, my second-in-command, said to me: 'Hey Gibbo, if you don't come back, can I have your egg tomorrow?' I realised that the first aircraft to attack the dam would probably catch the gunners with...
  • Still bouncing to victory: Engineers recreate daring Dambusters raid over Canadian lake

    05/01/2011 6:24:44 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 15 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | May 1, 2011
    A team of engineers has managed to recreate one of the greatest wartime raids in history – with a little help from a cricket bowling machine. The bouncing bomb developed by scientist Barnes Wallis was used to breach key German dams in 1943, cutting off hydro-electric power and wrecking factories. The raid was the subject of Paul Brickhill’s 1951 book The Dambusters and the 1954 movie of the same name. But the science behind the successful operation, including the original calculations and designs, was lost in a flood in the 1960s.