Dam busters : the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943
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xix, 437 pages : illustrations (some color), maps - Publisher New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2012]
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Dam Busters : The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
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Dam Busters : The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| List of Maps and Figures | p. ix | |
| Author's Note | p. xi | |
| Cast List | p. xiii | |
| Prologue | p. 1 | |
| Part I | Towards Greenlight | |
| 1 | Signs of Progress | p. 21 |
| 2 | A Method of Attacking the Axis Powers | p. 36 |
| 3 | Bouncing Bomb | p. 51 |
| 4 | Sink the Tirpitz | p. 63 |
| 5 | Sitting on the Fence | p. 69 |
| 6 | Bomber Boys | p. 77 |
| 7 | Panacea Mongers | p. 91 |
| 8 | Portal Power | p. 100 |
| 9 | Greenlight | p. 112 |
| Part II | The Race to Smash the Dams | |
| 10 | The Main Offensive | p. 123 |
| 11 | Special Squadron | p. 135 |
| 12 | 617 Squadron | p. 149 |
| 13 | Certain Dams | p. 161 |
| 14 | The Conquest of Nature | p. 170 |
| 15 | Low Level | p. 182 |
| 16 | Trials and Tribulations | p. 197 |
| 17 | A Matter of Height and Speed | p. 211 |
| 18 | Scampton and Reculver | p. 227 |
| 19 | Bottomley Sets the Date | p. 236 |
| 20 | Air Ministry versus the Admiralty | p. 250 |
| 21 | Countdown | p. 266 |
| Part III | The Raid | |
| 22 | Final Day | p. 281 |
| 23 | Outward Journey | p. 295 |
| 24 | Goner | p. 311 |
| 25 | The Hardest Target | p. 328 |
| 26 | Homeward Bound | p. 336 |
| Part IV | Legacy | |
| 27 | After the Raid | p. 349 |
| 28 | Katastrophe | p. 363 |
| 29 | Damn Busters | p. 374 |
| Postscript | p. 384 | |
| Abbreviations | p. 399 | |
| Operation CHASTISE Timeline | p. 400 | |
| Operation CHASTISE Codewords | p. 404 | |
| Notes | p. 406 | |
| Sources | p. 415 | |
| Acknowledgements | p. 421 | |
| Picture Acknowledgements | p. 425 | |
| Index | p. 427 |
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