Dam Busters: Failed to Return

by Steve Darlow and Robert Owen

On the night of 16/17 May 1943 a select group of young RAF Bomber Command airmen carried out one of the most audacious and daring low level raids of the Second World War. Nineteen aircrews of No.617 Squadron, flying modified Avro Lancasters, each armed with a 'bouncing bomb', were detailed to attack specific dams, viewed as essential to Germany's war effort. Two were indeed breached in an extraordinary display of skill and courage, but at a cost of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0957116349
• ISBN13: 9780957116344
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Fighting High
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.9"