Bombing Nazi Dams: Bomb the Dam
A special modification created a backspin that allowed Wallis’ bomb to hug the wall of the dam as it sank and detonate near the base. Now it’s your turn to deliver a direct hit to the Nazi’s Mohne Dam.

A special modification created a backspin that allowed Wallis’ bomb to hug the wall of the dam as it sank and detonate near the base. Now it’s your turn to deliver a direct hit to the Nazi’s Mohne Dam.
George “Johnny” Johnson flew forty missions under McCarthy as a bomb aimer and flew on the mission to destroy the Nazi hydroelectric dams.
While working to aid Britain’s military efforts Wallis toyed with a problem the British military had largely considered unsolvable — how to destroy the Nazis’ most important hydroelectric dams.
Royal Air Force was on a mission to destroy several of the Nazi’s major hydroelectric dams with a strange new weapon — a bouncing bomb that would skip across the water.
In the spring of 1943, Allied forces to begin preparations for a top secret Allied raid. Each aircraft carried a top-secret weapon — a newly-invented bouncing bomb — designed to shatter Germany’s major dams.
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