Alternative Dambusters raid

Moglwi

Monthly Donor
I was watching a programme about the raid. I had a thought what if insted of bouncing bombs they had used tallboys would have that changed the raid they could have come higher which would made the run in easer and the aiming less stressful as they would bot have to use string and pencil or bits of wood. What do everyone think. This suppose rather than working on a Bouncing bomb Barnes Wallis workind on Tallboy,Grandslam so it was ready ealier
 
I was watching a programme about the raid. I had a thought what if insted of bouncing bombs they had used tallboys would have that changed the raid they could have come higher which would made the run in easer and the aiming less stressful as they would bot have to use string and pencil or bits of wood. What do everyone think. This suppose rather than working on a Bouncing bomb Barnes Wallis workind on Tallboy,Grandslam so it was ready ealier

the Tallboy was only developed after the Dams raid showed Barnes Wallis's bomb ideas were good.

Also, Tallboys were never intended to destroy dams, theye were too small and dams are a threadlike target from above. They did try it in 1945 I believe, with poor/ineffectual results
 
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