Name: Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen who led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943 (en Inglés)
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Author: Holland, James
ISBN: 9780802122780

portada Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen who led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943 (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

James Holland

Editorial

Grove Press

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

437

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm

Peso

0.64 kg.

ISBN13

9780802122780

N° edición

Categorías

Segunda guerra mundial - (c. 1939-c. 1945)
Fuerzas aéreas
Armas y equipamiento militar
Segunda guerra mundial
Armamentística, pertrechos militares

Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen who led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943 (en Inglés)

James Holland (Autor) · Grove Press · Tapa Blanda

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The night of May 16, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to head deep into the German heartland and destroy three hydroelectric dams that power the Third Reich's war machine. From the outset it was an almost impossible task, a suicide mission. First the men had to fly extremely low, at night, and in tight formation over miles of enemy-occupied territory. Then, just sixty feet above the water and at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany, they had to drop with pinpoint precision a complicated spinning cylindrical bomb that had never before been used operationally. More than that, the entire operation had to be put together in less than ten weeks, while the water levels in the dams were still high enough for the bombs to be effective. When the visionary aviation engineer Barnes Wallis's concept of the bouncing bomb was green-lighted, he hadn't even drawn up the plans for the weapon that was to smash the dams. What followed was an incredible race against time that, despite numerous setbacks and against huge odds, became one of the most successful and game-changing bombing raids of all time. James Holland's Dam Busters is meticulously researched and brilliantly told, sure to be the definitive history of this incredible raid.