Dambusters: Operation Chastise 1943

by Douglas C. Dildy

Book Overview

In May 1943, a specially established RAF squadron made its permanent imprint on military aviation history by flying a high-risk, low-level, nighttime attack against German hydro-electric dams vital to the Nazi armaments industry in the Ruhr Valley. A comparatively tiny part of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris' four-month-long "Battle of the Ruhr," this one raid had an impact totally out of proportion to the small number of aircraft involved. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846039347
• ISBN13: 9781846039348
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.2" x 9.6"