The Dambusters - 'Was It Worth It?': Barnes Wallis and the Men Behind the Raid in Their Own Words

by John Sweetman

On the evening of 16 May 1943, nineteen Avro Lancasters took off from RAF Scampton to undertake 617 Squadron's first offensive attack since its formation a few weeks earlier. Loaded with Barnes Wallis' newly designed bouncing bombs, the Bomber Command crews set course for their targets - the vital M?hne, Eder and Sorpe dams that served the Ruhr, the Third Reich's industrial heartland.

By the time the survivors began landing back at base at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399063812
• ISBN13: 9781399063814
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Air World
• Length: 312 Pages