Barnes Wallis
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Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for having invented the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr
Wallis as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service
R100 airship
The Möhne Dam, breached by bouncing bombs
Valentin U-boat pen, with its roof of 4.5 m (15 ft) of reinforced concrete blown open by a Grand Slam bomb
Operation Chastise
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Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, usi
Barnes Wallis
…1887 – 30 October 1979) was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for having invented the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II. The raid was the subject of the 1955 film The Dam Busters, in which…
1:50 scale model of the Möhne Dam, Building Research Establishment 51°42′06″N 0°22′28″W / 51.701764°N 0.374486°W / 51.701764; -0.374486
Remains of the Nant-y-Gro dam breached in July 1942 during testing
Air Vice-Marshal Ralph Cochrane, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, King George VI and Group Captain John Whitworth discussing the Dambuster Raid in May 1943