Today marks the 65th anniversary of the "Dambuster Raid" on dams in the Ruhr in 1943, as noted by a BBC article.
Many will have seen the 1955 film The Dam Busters, with Richard Todd playing Wing Commander Guy Gibson and Michael Redgrave as Barnes Wallis, the inventor of the "bouncing bomb". The film left out some details that were still considered secret at the time.
All was revealed, however, when in 1963 the patent was published for the "bomb" (actually a mine), Improvements in Explosive Missiles and Means for their Discharge . Here are the main drawings.
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