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100 1  Hastings, Max,|eauthor,|enarrator. 
245 10 Operation Chastise :|bthe RAF's most brilliant attack of 
       World War II|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cMax 
       Hastings. 
250    Unabridged. 
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511 0  Read by the author and Peter Noble. 
520    One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to 
       the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the 
       awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal 
       Army Force's 617 Squadron. The attack on Nazi Germany's 
       dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats
       in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal 
       Air Force's 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and 
       darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly 
       lumbering heavy bombers straight and level towards a 
       target at a height above the water less than the length of
       a bowling alley. Yet this story-and the later wartime 
       experience of the 617 Squadron-has never been told in 
       full. Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to 
       reveal how the truth of that night is considerably 
       different from the popularized account most people know. 
       The RAF had identified the Ruhr dams as strategic 
       objectives as far back as 1938; in those five years Wing 
       Commander Guy Gibson formed and trained the 617 Squadron. 
       Hastings observes that while the dropping of Wallis's 
       mines provided the dramatic climax, only two of the eight 
       aircraft lost came down over the dams-the rest were shot 
       down on the flight to, or back from, the mission. And 
       while the 617 Squadron's valor is indisputable, the 
       ultimate industrial damage caused by the dam raid was 
       actually rather modest. In 1943, these brave men caught 
       the imagination of the world and uplifted the weary 
       spirits of the British people. Their achievement unnerved 
       the Nazi high command, and caused them to expend large 
       resources on dam defenses-making the mission a success. An
       example of Churchill's "military theatre" at its best, 
       what 617 Squadron did was an extraordinary and heroic 
       achievement, and a triumph of British ingenuity and 
       technology-a story to be told for generations to come. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
610 10 Great Britain.|bRoyal Air Force.|bSquadron, 617|xHistory. 
650  0 Operation Chastise, 1943. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations, British. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xCampaigns|zGermany|zRuhr (Region) 
700 1  Noble, Peter|c(Narrator),|enarrator. 
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