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

by John Sweetman

On 16 May 1943, 617 Squadron's first mission saw 19 Avro Lancasters deploy bouncing bombs to breach the M hne and Eder dams, inflicting significant damage on Nazi Germany's industrial Ruhr region.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399063812
• ISBN13: 9781399063814
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Air World
• Length: 304 Pages