Dam Busters

The story of the British-made bombs, Upkeep and Highball, successfully dropped on Nazi dams “ has never been told in such depth before” ( Daily Mail , UK). The night of May 16, 1943: Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three hydroelectric dams that power the Third Reich’s war machine. It was a suicide mission from the outset. Fir