Dam Busters Owners' Workshop Manual, by Dr lain Murray, Haynes Publishing, 160pp, illus, hbk, ISBN 9780857330154, £19.99 Dr lain Murray applies the familiar Haynes Manuals treatment to the work of Barnes Wallis and the technology that led to the famous Dam Busters raid, lain, a lecturer at the University of Dundee and a leading consultant for TV and media, provides rare insight into the wartime worlds of specialist bomb design and development, and their delivery by the RAF. Barnes Wallis' 'bouncing bombs' were dropped by Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of May 16/17, 1943, smashing open the Mohne and Eder dams - the raid quickly becoming the stuff of legend.
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