As Great Britain urgently sought to counter Germany’s industrial might in the Second World War, some military planners came to believe that striking the Third Reich’s energy supply might be able to halt the German war machine. While the idea did not pan out exactly how the British hoped, it did lead to one of the most famous bombing raids of the war. During Operation Chastise, Britain’s Squadron 617 launched a daring and innovative attack on German hydroelectric dams. The mission would see the use of a new, specially designed bomb... one that could skip on the water like a pebble before blowing up its target at precisely the right point...



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