For the first half of World War II, most senior RAF officers thought Dr Barnes Wallis was the latter. Brilliant and eccentric, determined and arrogant, Barnes Neville Wallis started life with a lotto prove. Born on 26 September 1887 in ...
This was a raid like no other, and in this extraordinary collection Max Arthur has created an enduring record of a unique event in British military history.
Dambusters
Aviation.
Beretter om den engelske bombeeskadrille 617 ("Dambusters") og dens bombeoperationer under 2. verdenskrig, af hvilke sprængningerne af dæmninger i Ruhr-området blev de mest kendte.
In May 1943 a specially established RAF squadron made its permanent imprint on military aviation history by flying a high-risk, low level, nighttime attack against German hydro-electric dams vital to the Nazi armaments industry in the Ruhr ...