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1 online resource (409 pages)
ISBN:
9780802193063
Inhalt:
The night of 16 May, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine. From the outset it was an almost impossible task, a suicide mission: to fly low and at night in formation over many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters' capacity, and drop a new weapon that had never been tried operationally before from a precise height of just sixty feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany. More than that, the entire operation had to be put together in less than ten weeks. When visionary aviation engineer Barnes Wallis's concept of the bouncing bomb was green lighted, he hadn't even drawn up his plans for the weapon that was to smash the dams. What followed was an incredible race against time, which, despite numerous setbacks and against huge odds, became one of the most successful and game-changing bombing raids of all time.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Half title -- Also by James Holland -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Author's Note -- Cast List -- Prologue -- Part I: Towards Greenlight -- 1 Signs of Progress -- 2 A Method of Attacking the Axis Powers -- 3 Bouncing Bomb -- 4 Sink the Tirpitz -- 5 Sitting on the Fence -- 6 Bomber Boys -- 7 Panacea Mongers -- 8 Portal Power -- 9 Greenlight -- Part II: The Race to Smash the Dams -- 10 The Main Offensive -- 11 Special Squadron -- 12 617 Squadron -- 13 Certain Dams -- 14 The Conquest of Nature -- 15 Low Level -- 16 Trials and Tribulations -- 17 A Matter of Height and Speed -- 18 Scampton and Reculver -- 19 Bottomley Sets the Date -- 20 Air Ministry versus the Admiralty -- 21 Countdown -- Part III: The Raid -- 22 Final Day -- 23 Outward Journey -- 24 Goner -- 25 The Hardest Target -- 26 Homeward Bound -- Part IV: Legacy -- 27 After the Raid -- 28 Katastrophe -- 29 Damn Busters -- Postscript -- Preview: Brothers in Arms -- Abbreviations -- Operation CHASTISE Timeline -- Operation CHASTISE Codewords -- Notes -- Sources -- Acknowledgements -- Picture Acknowledgements -- Index -- About the Author.
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ISBN 9780802121691
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780802121691
Sprache:
Englisch
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