European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Left wot fir if Al Raf Point of about 400900 Upil photo Carlund after Ihori dam four Houri ofter a spinning bomb Blat Ltd a chunk out of i by Wank staff Wriler to Nineteen heavy Lancaster bomb 11 ers were warming up in the muggy English pilots checked their instruments and nervously watched of the Green signal that would Send them on their from other squadrons could ignore the couching your of the powerful Merlin engines but they must Nave wondered what sort of strange beasts these the clean Iines of the four engine planes ranked among Britain finest heavy bombers were the dorsal turrets were gone and there were Peculiar mouldings under the most offensive to the were the big bulges underneath where bomb Bay doors hid been hanging suspended Between v shaped were ugly Ashcan shaped objects that looked like depth strange looking things they were but this night they would perform a Job by to be these were the planes that blew up the Hoehne and Der striking a pow Erful blow for the allies during the dark Days of May How they did is a secret that Only now has been Hooks have Boon written about Squadron describing it As the must effective unit of its that the British forces Ever but the ugly bomb thai enabled them to make history was kept shrouded in the Story of the bomb goes Back to 1940 when in nines Wallis of Vickers Armstrong first became aware o opera Tion a project concerned with the destruction of several big dams in Hoyal air Force boffins had considered the project after initial calculations were an Aerial attack plan was figures showed it would Lake a Liomel weigh ing 35 tons dropped accurately near the face of a big dam to breach since this was five tons More than the Gross weight of a bomber 194042 mime other Way would have to be that was where Wallis came if the Lmh could be exploded alien actually in Contact with the face of the dam he n much smaller Cham would be experiments Willi models and an obsolete dam in Wales proved thai a ton bomb would in inuit i under those conditions to breach u dam the of die Eder or sore targets of operation j picture a solid slab of feet High and tapering from a a Uch of 112 feet at the Bottom to 15 the youve got an idea of difficulty of the the real of design a weapon that could be at Jujj from the air and would then itself against the dam before Wallis concluded that the Only Way j do this would be to play duct Drakes with the making to 1bj across lie water by spinning it naw wards at High Speed As it 11 Linn inn on its Axis was in Vlad rival bombs dial enhance the skipping on tier the Iamb hit the face my bounced the Minu would once again work Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday