In James Holland's recent book, Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams ... have been toiling in France were redirected to the Ruhr to repair the dams. A year later allied troops would have ...

The idea was that it would bounce across water and destroy German dams along the Ruhr Valley ... Partly thanks to the 1955 film The Dam Busters, the story behind Operation Chastise, which took ...

The Mohne dam was the most tactically significant target ... The waters spread for 50 miles along the Ruhr valley killing more than 1,300 people. The raid was viewed as a military success by ...

Incoming tracer from the dam wall whipped past and each man braced ... stirred porridge . . . gushing out and rolling into the Ruhr Valley towards the industrial centres of Germany's Third Reich'.

The fleet of bombers had inflicted a decisive blow to Nazi infrastructure by breaching two major dams in the Ruhr. Although officially ... They were the Mohne Dam, the Sorpe Dam and the Eder ...

On May 16, 1943, 19 Lancaster bomber crews gathered at a remote RAF station in Lincolnshire for a mission of extraordinary daring - a night-time raid on three heavily defended dams deep in Germany ...

The bombs were to be released about half a mile before the dam, bounce five or six times and then sink and explode. The targets were the Möhne and Sorpe Dams upstream from the Ruhr industrial ...

Launch of Raid on the Ruhr "Dambusters" VR Education (AIM: VRE; Euronext Growth: 6VR), a leading virtual reality ('VR') technology company focused on the education space, is pleased to announce ...

The 1943 Dam Busters mission that destroyed three hydroelectric dams on the Ruhr River in Germany is one of the best-known missions of the Second World War. A Brit hatched the plan, Britain's ...