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snakedog
05-17-2013, 08:20 PM
http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/upload/thumb/179_20700.jpg (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=3683) Dambusters flyby Tribute, Derwent Dam, Derbyshire, United Kingdomhttp://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/images/play_thread.png (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=3683)

pmjn0943
05-19-2013, 09:54 AM
16th 17th of May was 70 years since OP Chastise when 617 sqn under the Command of Wing Commander Guy Gibson attacked the Eder Mohne and Sorper Dams in Germany, which aimed at stopping German Factories producing goods for the German
War effort. The bouncing bomb was Desiqned by Sir Barns Wallis the idea came from bouncing pebbles marbels off water in a tin bath a Brilliant idea by Pipe Smoking tea drinkng boffins of the time, the attacks had Catastrophic Civillian Casualties.