Family & General Military History
Wing Commander Guy Gibson and 617 Squadron, RAF flew RAF Avro Lancaster Bombers on a daring low-level raid over Germany. They dropped the famous "Bouncing Bomb" invented by Barnes Wallis on the Mohne and Eder dams, thus breaching and flooding Germanys Industrial complex.
Barnes Wallis, "Bouncing Bomb," theory came to fruition, when he discovered an ancient way, named the "Magnus," effect, to bounce a spinning object off water.
Barnes Wallace-Assistant Chief Designer of Vickers Armstrong Aviation, designed the famous "Bouncing Bomb,", used by the RAF to bomb the dams of the Ruhr Valley, in an attempt to flood the German Industrial complex.