Download Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943 AudioBook Free
The night time of 16 May, 1943: Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9000-lb cylindrical bomb strapped beneath it. Their objective: to eliminate three dams deep within the German heartland, which supply the lifeblood to the business supplying the 3rd Reich's warfare machine. From the outset it was an almost impossible activity, a suicide objective: to soar low and at night in creation over many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters' capacity, and drop a fresh weapon that had never been tried out operationally before from a precise height of just 60 feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended focuses on in Germany. A lot more than that, the entire operation had to be put together in under 10 weeks. When visionary aviation engineer Barnes Wallis' idea of the jumping bomb was green lighted, he hadn't even drawn up his programs for the tool that was to smash the dams. What used was an incredible contest against time, which, despite numerous setbacks and against huge odds, became one of the most successful and game-changing bombing raids ever.
