May 17, 1943: Dambusters raid strikes blow to the heart of Nazi Germany
May 17, 1943: Dambusters raid strikes blow to the heart of Nazi Germany
Power stations, factories and rail lines on the industrial Ruhr were washed away when one of the most ingenious and daring missions of World War II hit its targets.
One of the most iconic missions of the Second World War was completed on this day in 1943, when Wing Commander Guy Gibson led 19 Lancaster bombers on the ‘Dambusters’ raid into Germany’s Ruhr Valley.
This heavily-industrialised area – and in particular three of its dams, the Möhne, Eder and the Sorpe – had long been considered a strategic target by the Allies, but the thickness of the dam walls and the heavy torpedo nets which lay in front of them made them difficult to breach.
These problems were solved by the development of a drum-shaped, backwards-spinning ‘bouncing’ bomb (below) by scientist and engineer Barnes Wallis, which were light enough to be carried by existing RAF bombers and would sink directly against their targets when dropped.
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