Operation Chastise

The Hangar Jun 27, 2026

Operation Chastise - Guy Gibson, the Bouncing Bomb, and the Night 617 Squadron Attacked the Dams

On the night of May 16–17, 1943, 19 Lancaster bombers and 133 airmen executed Operation Chastise, breaching Nazi Germany's Ruhr valley dams with Barnes Wallis's revolutionary bouncing bomb.

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The Hangar May 16, 2026

Operation Chastise and the Dambusters who skipped bombs across German reservoirs at sixty feet on May sixteenth, nineteen forty-three

On May 16, 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers attacked Germany's Ruhr Valley dams using spinning bouncing bombs dropped at exactly sixty feet.

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