- Year
- 1943
- Event
- RAF crews returned from Operation Chastise after attacking German dams with Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bomb.
- Why it matters
- The raid became one of the most famous British air operations of the Second World War, though its cost and later myth-making deserve careful handling.
- Possible Historically angle
- Write beyond the legend: the engineering, the losses, the propaganda value and the uncomfortable human cost downstream.
- Suggested category
- War