Can experts recreate an Allied attack from WWII and destroy dams with a bouncing bomb?

Bombing Hitler's Dams NOVA

Premiered January 10, 2012
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Bombing Hitler's Dams

In 1943 a squadron of Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in military history: destroying two gigantic dams in Germany's industrial heartland and cutting the water supply to arms factories. Their secret weapon? A revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis.

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