Bouncing bomb

The attack on the Sorp Dam, an earth dam with a concrete core rather than a curved masonry structure, was a different problem altogether.

The bouncing bomb wasn't the right weapon for it.

The crews assigned to the Sorp dropped their weapons across the crest of the earth fill and caused damage, but the Sorp was not breached that night.

By two in the morning two of Germany's three major Ruhr dams were broken.

He called it upkeep.

The rest of us call it the bouncing bomb.

Wallis spent years developing it, scaled models in water tanks.

Full-size prototype drops off the English coast from modified aircraft.

The second and third waves, meanwhile, attacked the Sorp Dam.

The Sorp was an earthen-filled dam rather than masonry, and the bouncing bomb technique that worked so well on the Monet and Eater was less effective against its different construction.

The SORP was damaged but not breached that night.

Of the 19 Lancasters that launched, eight did not come home.

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We've got science boffins, bouncing bombs, secret ops, aerial attacks, a lot of pluck and even more stiff upper lips.

It's 1955.

It's the Dam Busters.

Oh, how exciting.

Now, we should say, I mean, I mentioned in my little preamble about it being a docudrama.

Basically, what that means is that, obviously, you know, it's actors acting out a story, a true life story, but it was interspersed and intercut with real life documentary footage of them testing the bouncing bombs, hence why it's called a docudrama.

But it's essentially a war film, isn't it? Yes, it is, it is.

The eater breached.

The sorp, with its earthen construction and different geometry, resisted the bouncing bomb.

It was damaged that night but not destroyed.

Eight of the 19 Lancasters did not come home.

Wallace had a different approach entirely.

He called it the bouncing bomb.

The concept drew from an old naval observation.

A flat spinning object skips across water rather than sinking immediately.

The eater was breached just before 2 in the morning.

The Sorb Dam was never breached, its construction was different, an earthen embankment rather than masonry, and the bouncing bomb was not effective against it.

Several crews dropped their weapons on it.

The Sorb held.

The Sorpe was earthen construction rather than concrete.

And the bouncing bomb wasn't optimized for it.

It was the one that got away.

By the time the survivors turned for home, the cost was known.