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    A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both...
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  • themselves were never fully developed or used. A related concept, the bouncing bomb was developed and used in World War II, to be dropped into water as...
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    Barnes Wallis (section Bombs)
    an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters"...
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  • the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe dams in Nazi Germany with Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb. The Dam Busters was acclaimed by critics, who widely praised its acting...
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    chosen to equip 617 Squadron and was modified to carry the Upkeep "bouncing bomb" designed by Barnes Wallis for Operation Chastise, the attack on German...
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  • This is a list of the types of bombs....
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    novel delivery methods were introduced. These included Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb, designed to bounce across water, avoiding torpedo nets and other underwater...
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    Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis. The Möhne and Edersee dams were breached...
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  • armor-piercing bombs for use against shipping and fortifications. In World War II, the British designer Barnes Wallis, already famous for inventing the bouncing bomb...
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  • attacks on its supply of hydroelectric power. After he had developed the bouncing bomb and shown its possibilities, RAF Bomber Command were prepared to listen...
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    specially designed barrel shaped bouncing bombs that used backspin to skip along the water and destroy the dams. The bombing aircraft flew at very low altitudes...
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    "Spherical Bomb—Surface Torpedo" and the design of the "bouncing bomb" for the Dam Busters of Operation Chastise. The RAF therefore used bombs which they...
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    Bouncing Bomb". BBC History. 25 October 2006. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2014; "The Dambusters Bouncing Bomb"...
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    of Barnes Wallis' bouncing bomb. The reason for this is unclear. In the Avro Lancaster, the RAF had a bomber with a large enough bomb bay and sufficient...
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    conceived his “Spherical Bomb, Surface Torpedo” after watching his daughter flip pebbles over water. Two versions of the 'bouncing bomb' were developed: the...
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    Portland. The beach was also used for machine gun training and Highball bouncing bomb testing during the war. A double row of anti-tank blocks divides the...
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    of Operation Chastise with its bouncing bomb. It was filmed in the UK documentary Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb, Canadian documentary Dambusters...
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    Hinckley: Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-179-8. Murray, Iain (2009). Bouncing-Bomb Man: the Science of Sir Barnes Wallis. Haynes. ISBN 978-1-84425-588-7...
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    over the jungle. Three Avengers were modified to carry the Highball "bouncing bomb" (given the new codename Tammany Hall), but when trials were unsuccessful...
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    Again in Canada, Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb in the United Kingdom, and Nova season 39 episode "Bombing Hitler's Dams" in the United States. A...
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    by WW2-period British inventor Barnes Wallace when he developed the "bouncing bomb" used in the famous "Dam Busters" raid against the Ruhr District dams...
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  • Upkeep may refer to: Maintenance, repair, and operations Upkeep bomb, a bouncing bomb developed in World War II for Operation Chastise This disambiguation...
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  • "cookies") Bouncing bomb (World War II British) SC250 bomb (World War II Germany) Tallboy bomb (World War II British, "earthquake bomb") Grand Slam bomb (World...
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  • Dambusters Raid in May 1943, Summers was test pilot for the experimental bouncing bomb dropped from a Vickers Wellington near Portland, Dorset, a job given...
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    Depth charge (redirect from Depth bomb)
    the cube of the distance to the target. Bouncing bomb, the specialized air-delivered depth charge–like bomb used for the RAF's Operation Chastise Naval...
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    The bouncing bomb depth charges used in the "Dambusters Raid" each contained 6,600 pounds (3,000 kg) of Torpex; The Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs designed...
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  • alcoholic drink. Highball may also refer to: Highball, a 1942 British bouncing bomb project from World War 2 Highball (climbing), a climbing term for a...
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  • Heinz Schweizer (category Bomb disposal personnel)
    the common criminals. In May 1943, Schweizer recovered the unexploded bouncing bomb code-named 'Upkeep', carried by RAF Lancaster bomber ED927 AJ-E 'Easy...
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  • west of Southampton. Barnes Wallis's Bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise by the Dambusters and the Grand Slam bomb were tested there. The site was used...
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    differential analyser may have been used in the development of the bouncing bomb, used to attack German hydroelectric dams during World War II. Differential...
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