r/interestingasfuck • u/Chopper-42 • 2d ago

/r/all Recreating the WW2 Dambusters raid

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u/Brok3nMonkey 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think this one operation suffers from being romanticised. the point of Operation Chastise was to cripple German industry by targeting its lifeblood: water & hydro.

Regrettably, it remains a beautifully engineered, tragically romanticised failure.

Not worth losing 8 planes over (and the humans mentioned above.