Название: Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943
Автор: James Holland
Издательство: Transworld Digital
ISBN: 0552163414
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 576
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine.
From the outset it was an almost impossible task, a suicide mission: to fly low and at night in formationover many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters' capacity, and drop a new weapon that had never been tried operationally before from a precise height of just sixty feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany.