THE DAMS RAID - Through The Lens
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description: THE DAMS RAID - Through The Lens Author:Helmuth Euler Language:English Text Format:Hardcover Dimensions:8.5" x 12" Pages:240 pages Photos:Over 400 photos Maps:Some maps Publisher:After the Battle ISBN:187006727 4 Item No. ATB BK-036 The story of the attack on the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr has been recounted many times before but not until now has it been told from the German side. Helmuth Euler has spent over a third of a century studying the raid and its consequencies, collecting an unrivalled archive of documents and photographs, and producing documentary films on the attack. His book Wasserkrieg (literally 'Water-war'), published in Germany in 1992, has now been translated and adapted for this After the Battle edition in the 'Through the Lens' series. The waters of the Ruhr were essential for the manufacture of steel and hence for the German armament industry as a whole. This, coupled with the hydro-electric power which they generated, made the dams controlling these waters a tempting target, and British military planners at the Air Ministry in London were considering their destruction as far back as 1937. Six dams on the Möhne, Sorpe, Ennepe, Lister, Diemel and Eder rivers figured on Bomber Command's target list - the first five due to their importance to the steel industry and the latter because of its role in controlling water levels along the River Weser and the Mittelland Canal, both of which were linked to the inland waterways supplying war materials throughout the Reich and to the Eastern Front. If the reservoirs could be emptied of water, together with the elimination of the power plants, the German war machine would be delivered a body-blow . . . or at least that was the theory. Barnes Wallis was not the first to consider the problem but his was the brilliant idea that led to the breaching the dams. The plan gave rise to the formation of No. 617 Squadron, an elite unit under Wing Commander Guy Gibson, for precision bombing and special operations in…
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