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The Dambusters: Bouncing Bombs, Sixty Feet Above a Black Lake
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Wing Commander Gibson leads six hundred and seventeen Squadron's nineteen Lancasters against the Ruhr dams in the spring of nineteen forty three, carrying a weapon designer Barnes Wallis has never tested at operational altitude over real water at night. The Mohne and Eder dams hold the water supply and industrial power of Germany's armaments heartland, and the attack must be completed before summer dawn breaks the cover of darkness. The altitude required is sixty feet, and the flak crews at the Mohne are already awake.
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