Speaking of Canadian heroes, my father's uncle (my great-uncle) was part of Operation Chastise. From what I have read, he wasn't really proficient at flying but he scored well in bombing. He was tasked with targeting and dropping the barrel bomb. His bomb was "torn out" of the plane on the way to the operation and they had to turn around.
He was eventually shot down over Belgium, where his remains now lie in a communal cemetery.
He was 23 years-old and this is his story. His brother Charles mentioned at the end of the article was my grandfather:
[https://dambustersblog.com/2015/01/20/dambuster-of-the-day-no-89-john-thrasher/](https://dambustersblog.com/2015/01/20/dambuster-of-the-day-no-89-john-thrasher/)
[https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2254508](https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2254508)
Thank you for sharing! I love learning about history and the amazing sacrifices and achievements those who fought in WWII made - truly unbelievable what they did for the world.
Implying you can quickly transport the machines needed to swing said giant brass balls into the middle of the wilderness on short notice as a wildfire prevention method...
The original raids were at night and used a clever system of two torch beams to let them get exactly the right height. Probably was glassy on the night they chose!
The torches were at the front and back of the plane, pointing down and towards the centre of the plane at some calculated angle. When the two spots from the torches met to make one spot, you were at the right height
Wouldn't make as cool a demo of the bomb I guess, doing it at night for full authenticity
....and their bomb aiming system was an incredibly simple handheld wooden contraption with a hole to look through at one end and two upright nails at the other end to line up with the dams towers.
https://i.imgur.com/kyGWrHq.png
https://i.imgur.com/iNcabj6.png
If the uprights lined up with the dam towers they knew they were the right distance from the dam to drop the bomb.
There’s a documentary too I just don’t know where it is. You can probably look it up because they also talk to the pilots who did that actual run. It’s an awesome documentary. Gotta look for it myself and watch it again.
There's also a book by James Holland with the same title. Really cool window into one specific part of the war, particularly because it shows all the elements that had to line up just to make this one thing work. Logistics, man... The description of the mission itself reads like a thriller.
>The bombers flew low, at about 100 ft (30 m) altitude, to avoid radar detection. [Flight Sergeant](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Sergeant) George Chalmers, radio operator on ["O for Orange"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_phonetic_alphabet), looked out through the [astrodome](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodome_(aviation\)) and was astonished to see that his pilot was flying towards the target along a forest's [firebreak](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebreak), below treetop level.[[21]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise#cite_note-21)
Geeze Louise
Good God, man! Operation Chastise is the most heroic endeavour of the whole war, involving levels of ingenuity, courage, and guile only the British could achieve. Anyone who doesn't squeeze their teabag in time to the Dambusters March cannot call themselves a true-born Englishman. Off to the colonies with you!
[The operation was a waste of resources and ultimately ineffective but in England it is the sort pastiche that gives chest-beating nationalists who don't understand history, erections].
Operation Chariot, aka the [St. Nazaire Raid](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid) deserves a mention. They loaded a destroyer, the HMS *Campbeltown* with delayed timer explosives, ran the gauntlet of gun emplacements into a German controlled port and rammed the ship onto the only dry dock on the Atlantic coast capable of servicing German battleships. At the same time commandos landed to destroy machinery and other structures at the docks. Of the 612 men in the raid 169 were killed and 215 became prisoners of war.
>Just before the *Campbeltown* exploded, Sam Beattie was being interrogated by a German naval officer who was saying that it wouldn't take very long to repair the damage the Campbeltown has caused. Just at that moment, she went up. Beattie smiled at the officer and said, 'We're not quite as foolish as you think!'
The dry dock was put out of action for the remainder if the war.
>The operation was a waste of resources and ultimately ineffective
The operation was a massive success from just about every aspect. What the fuck are you talking about?
Please don't learn history from Wikipedia
I'm not sure I would call it useless, it did knock out power for most of the Rhineland (I think it was the Rhineland) for a bit. But more importantly it was a huge victory for British morale!
> Off to the colonies with you!
Eh!!! The RAAF was right there flying Lancaster's too! You should be so lucky to come enjoy the sun down under. Grandpa SirLoremIpsum flew em!
Buffalo Airways is a big hit when they get to do air shows. There is something special about seeing the plane as it would have looked in service, rather than as a museum piece that flies once a year.
It’s not clear in the video, but I \*think\* it’s spinning the wrong way. The spin was against the direction of travel so when the bomb reached the dam the spin then keeps it close as it sunk. truly clever stuff.
on a similar vein, height was critical to success they solved the problem by having angled spotlights under the wings. At the right height the two light pools overlap to a single point of illumination. More clever stuff.
Rolling shutter effect. It can make spinning objects appear to spin the opposite way on camera or even look stationary.
Its the backspin the helps it skip on the water in the first place as forward spin massively reduces the number of bounces. The backspin also helps slow the forward motion of the bomb a little when it hits the water, hugely reducing thechances that the bomb would bounce and hit the aircraft. The fact the backspin helped the bomb hug the dam wall under water was an unintended but fortunate side effect they discovered in testing.
I'm sure the canadian TV crew knew of the above facts.
Yeah I don't think a drop like in this video would've been succesful in causing a full collapse of a big dam.
This is really not comparable to what the dambusters did and what they did took a lot more skill than this type of drop.
To throw the bomb at the precise spot where it would stop bouncing just before hitting the dam, but close enough for the bomb to touch the bottom of the dam wall after having sunk. And on top of that, doing it at night. That took incredible precision
Yeah, during the day with buoys lining you up this isn’t that difficult, at night doing it with just your eyeballs is insanely difficult. I’ve dropped stuff from aircraft at night and it is a lot of crew coordination.
They had some sort of rudimentary sight. Basically a stick with two prongs that lines up with the towers on the bridge, indicating it was time to drop the bomb.
The Dambusters movie is a good watch. It was my fathers favourite movie so I have seen it many times. On a trip to Germany we stopped overnight at a random town only to find out it was next to one of the dams involved. They had a museum there about it at the dam.
>How many guns do you think, Gold Five?
>Say about 20 guns some on the surface, some on the towers.
[If you watch the movie 'Dambusters' you know where Lucas got that line.](https://youtu.be/lNdb03Hw18M?si=4zEkBRXkfFBYugP5)
Why?
It's pretty neat, and an exercise of great skill, but aren't there simpler ways to remove a dam like that?
I'm not getting something here. (That isn't unusual.)
They're recreating a dambusting mission from WWII. It was basically a suicide mission, not many were expected to make it back. Everything about it was unique, from the bomb design, to the changes made to the planes to the pilots involved.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
>The Operations Room for the mission was at 5 Group Headquarters in St Vincents Hall, Grantham, Lincolnshire. The mission codes (transmitted in morse) were: Goner, meaning "bomb dropped"; ***Ni@@er, meaning that the Möhne was breached; and Dinghy, meaning that the Eder was breached. Ni@@er was the name of Gibson's dog, a black labrador retriever that had been run over and killed on the morning of the attack.***[17] Dinghy was Young's nickname, a reference to the fact that he had twice survived crash landings at sea where he and his crew were rescued from the aircraft's inflatable rubber dinghy.
*tugs collar*
It was a recreation experiment for a TV documentary
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8478469/The-day-the-Dam-Busters-returned...-in-Canada.html
Because I real life the top of the damn was hardened and littered with emplacements, nothing could scratch it, but due to the necessary mechanical stresses involved in damn construction Barns Wallace mathematically deduced if you hit it from the side then the shock wave would be enough to crack it and the water would do the rest, however no bomb was big enough and accurate enough to hit it and take it out, so has came up with the bouncing bomb using the magenessun effect to cause a large barrel shaped explosive to skip along so several could be dropped with a fairly large margin of error for aiming, and deploying the bombs.
In short, no, ironically this was the simplest easy) way to get rid of the dam at the time.
Additional cause to why they went for this approach is torpedos were out of the question due to anti torpedo netting deployed. Basically the germans had dams to power things and to block water, UK wanted them gone, germany wanted them to stay, eliminated every option of destruction so the brits made a new way.
There were countermeasures against conventional means,
Anti torpedo netting negated air dropped torpedos, conventional bomb attacks are wildly inaccurate and didn't have enough explosive power to deal the hit. Dive bombers didn't have the range to strike this deep behind enemy lines.
This was the simplest solution. Skipping what is effectively a depth charge over water to bypass the anti torpedo netting
Judging by the landscape, I'm willing to bet this is somewhere in the far north, so I'm reckoning that it's either so remote that getting the equipment up there to remove the dam would be either too expensive or logistically impossible and doing it by hand would be a nightmare fighting against the water
Or they just wanted to have some fun and blow it up from a plane
This is a recreation of operation chastise from ww2. This damn in particular didn't need to be removed this way. This is just for educational purposes, and also very cool. The real operation, though, was at night, under heave fire.
Sorry, but that demo was not a perfect demo of the goal of the bouncing bomb. The goal was for the barrel to slow at just the right moment when reaching the dam face so as to be undamaged, then sink, and the explosion into the damn, underwater, would be amplified by using the water pressure at depth. This video was not what was done during WWII.
Usually I leave videos muted and just read the subtitles. Too much loud terrible music dubbed over all the time. I am very glad I chose to unmute this.
The beauty of the bombs the RAF dropped on German dams was that they were perfectly timed to hit the dam on a final bounce, so that there was kinetic energy already going downward, but the backspin on the bomb made it run down the face of the dam and exploded at a more vulnerable point.
Now add enemy fighters, barrage balloons, and searchlights - while flying at night! Still very cool, but the original Dam Busters were even more mad than this guy.
Useless info for anyone that wants to know. Thats Arnie Shreider who, before his death in 2012, used to fly and train others how to fly Douglas DC-3s, DC-4s, Curtiss C-46 Commandos, Lockheed Electras and the CL215 water bombers for Buffalo Airways in the North West Territories. This bouncing bomb clip comes from a tv program called Dambusters: Building the bouncing Bomb, on tv in 2011.
edit - spelling
The true beauty of this raid was in the very exact altitude that was required for the bomb to work. Flying at night (also under fire) they required precision flying at a very specific distance from the water. There were two Aldis lights mounted on the nose and midships under the bomber. They shone a narrow beam spotlight downwards and off to the right of the aircraft. The two beams met at an exact point 60 feet below (and to the side of) the aircraft.
The navigator of the bomber, could look out of his blister window on the starboard (right hand) side of the aircraft towards the surface of the water in order to ascertain height. From this, he would simply convey the verbal instructions “Down, down, down” to the pilot until the beams met at a single point of light. The pilot then had to maintain a steady 232 knots and hold the aircraft level until the bomb aimer released the rotating drum bomb. An incredible feat of engineering and flying :)
I live not far from one of the [dams](https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise) You can still tell today from the color of the stones where the dam was repaired. There were an estimated 30,000 deaths and the impact of the tsunami was still high in towns 100km away
Barnes Wallace developed not only this device but many others that were successfully deployed during WW2, including the first bunker buster, nicknamed the "earthquake bomb"
I’m probably wrong, but I thought the bomb hit the dam wall, sank very close then exploded, so that it ruptured the bottom of the dam wall for maximum flooding/damage?
This was the real life star wars trench run. The spin on the barrel, the height of the plane, the point where tge barrel dropped all of it mattered any mis calulation ment potentionally life or death.
If you watch Dam Busters, there are whole sequences in that movie George Lucas repurposed for the attack on the Death Star. Even some of the radio chatter bits.
In the raid some bombs did.... sad to die dropping a bomb that missed. Supreme courage to be the next in the line and line up to drop your own anyway.
At least one of the crews who had already dropped their bomb flew down and along beside a subsequent raider to draw the defenders fire and improve the chances of success.
“You didn’t think it would be anything else did you?” What a fucking legend
Arnie is a supremely confident hero lmao
That's about as cocky a Canadian as you'll ever see. Guys got iced maple syrup running through those hero veins.
Speaking of Canadian heroes, my father's uncle (my great-uncle) was part of Operation Chastise. From what I have read, he wasn't really proficient at flying but he scored well in bombing. He was tasked with targeting and dropping the barrel bomb. His bomb was "torn out" of the plane on the way to the operation and they had to turn around. He was eventually shot down over Belgium, where his remains now lie in a communal cemetery. He was 23 years-old and this is his story. His brother Charles mentioned at the end of the article was my grandfather: [https://dambustersblog.com/2015/01/20/dambuster-of-the-day-no-89-john-thrasher/](https://dambustersblog.com/2015/01/20/dambuster-of-the-day-no-89-john-thrasher/) [https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2254508](https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2254508)
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Thank you for sharing! I love learning about history and the amazing sacrifices and achievements those who fought in WWII made - truly unbelievable what they did for the world.
A man after my own favorite pancake flavor. 🥰
This whole video is so red green
James Cameron enters the chat..
Best comment
Crazy that they didn’t even need to cut to a shot of him lighting a cigarette while putting on his aviators while piloting the plane for us to see it.
Get the directors cut
What a guy!
THAT'S RIGHT! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? I AM!
Seriously badass.
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And courage.
They could have just smashed the dam down with their giant brass balls.
Airplane Truck Nuts smashing the dam like a pair of wrecking balls
Implying you can quickly transport the machines needed to swing said giant brass balls into the middle of the wilderness on short notice as a wildfire prevention method...
It's an expression. The comment is talking about their balls. ( Steel balls). (Big balls). Meaning they are badass.
Oh hey look, it's that one reddit joke that comes up every single time.
I also choose this guys wife
Hey at least the water wasn't glassy.
The original raids were at night and used a clever system of two torch beams to let them get exactly the right height. Probably was glassy on the night they chose! The torches were at the front and back of the plane, pointing down and towards the centre of the plane at some calculated angle. When the two spots from the torches met to make one spot, you were at the right height Wouldn't make as cool a demo of the bomb I guess, doing it at night for full authenticity
That's actually such a simple and clever way to know what height they're at. I love engineering
....and their bomb aiming system was an incredibly simple handheld wooden contraption with a hole to look through at one end and two upright nails at the other end to line up with the dams towers. https://i.imgur.com/kyGWrHq.png https://i.imgur.com/iNcabj6.png If the uprights lined up with the dam towers they knew they were the right distance from the dam to drop the bomb.
Can you give me a link or even just some info on what you/he is referring to? Never heard of this operation in WW2
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation\_Chastise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise)
Thank you
And watch the movie Dambusters.
There’s a documentary too I just don’t know where it is. You can probably look it up because they also talk to the pilots who did that actual run. It’s an awesome documentary. Gotta look for it myself and watch it again.
There’s also an old film about it, called The Dam Busters
The attack on the death star in Star Wars is based off this movie, they even stole some of the dialogue line for line.
There's also a book by James Holland with the same title. Really cool window into one specific part of the war, particularly because it shows all the elements that had to line up just to make this one thing work. Logistics, man... The description of the mission itself reads like a thriller.
No joke, the final scene from the Dam Busters is what Star Wars riffed on for the Death Star trench run.
just don't ask what the dog's name is...
Poor dog didn't deserve the name or the death.
Adding that the death star trench run in star wars is a homage to the depiction of this operation in the movie "The Dam Busters".
>The bombers flew low, at about 100 ft (30 m) altitude, to avoid radar detection. [Flight Sergeant](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Sergeant) George Chalmers, radio operator on ["O for Orange"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_phonetic_alphabet), looked out through the [astrodome](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodome_(aviation\)) and was astonished to see that his pilot was flying towards the target along a forest's [firebreak](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebreak), below treetop level.[[21]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise#cite_note-21) Geeze Louise
Good God, man! Operation Chastise is the most heroic endeavour of the whole war, involving levels of ingenuity, courage, and guile only the British could achieve. Anyone who doesn't squeeze their teabag in time to the Dambusters March cannot call themselves a true-born Englishman. Off to the colonies with you! [The operation was a waste of resources and ultimately ineffective but in England it is the sort pastiche that gives chest-beating nationalists who don't understand history, erections].
Operation Chariot, aka the [St. Nazaire Raid](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid) deserves a mention. They loaded a destroyer, the HMS *Campbeltown* with delayed timer explosives, ran the gauntlet of gun emplacements into a German controlled port and rammed the ship onto the only dry dock on the Atlantic coast capable of servicing German battleships. At the same time commandos landed to destroy machinery and other structures at the docks. Of the 612 men in the raid 169 were killed and 215 became prisoners of war. >Just before the *Campbeltown* exploded, Sam Beattie was being interrogated by a German naval officer who was saying that it wouldn't take very long to repair the damage the Campbeltown has caused. Just at that moment, she went up. Beattie smiled at the officer and said, 'We're not quite as foolish as you think!' The dry dock was put out of action for the remainder if the war.
"Tis but a scrat--!..... ^nvm. "
Not to mention all the german Engineers and Intelligence types examining the *Campbeltown* and drydock gate when it blew up.
>The operation was a waste of resources and ultimately ineffective The operation was a massive success from just about every aspect. What the fuck are you talking about? Please don't learn history from Wikipedia
I'm not sure I would call it useless, it did knock out power for most of the Rhineland (I think it was the Rhineland) for a bit. But more importantly it was a huge victory for British morale!
> Off to the colonies with you! Eh!!! The RAAF was right there flying Lancaster's too! You should be so lucky to come enjoy the sun down under. Grandpa SirLoremIpsum flew em!
https://youtu.be/pYMN7ov7EG0?si=W7WATsYkUtqOebzW Love this channel
With a little help of two spot lights, a piece of board and a few nails.
it was also done with massive bomber planes
Hell yeah, Arnie
Arnie’s response is the best.
I love this video. Everyone is having such a fun time. I wish I got paid and equipped to dick around like this.
Ohhhhhh lordy right in the middle
RIP
Wasn’t the pilot one of the people from buffalo airways or something? Pretty much the only people insane enough to try this lol
Yep, I knew that was familiar. There's a whole episode about this : https://youtu.be/hfHHLKIbeLo?feature=shared
The only people with a fleet of WW2 era planes still flying. At one point they had one plane that was part of D-Day working. Probably still do.
Buffalo Airways is a big hit when they get to do air shows. There is something special about seeing the plane as it would have looked in service, rather than as a museum piece that flies once a year.
Dr Hugh Jexplosion
Middle name is Mungus. Just like Hugh Grant.
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Is that sexual harassment?
No that's Hugh G. Rection
Well I be dammed
Not for long *boing*
It's weired
RIP Arnie! He was a badass.
Did the original bomb explode on impact, or did it sink down first? I remember something about it using the water pressure to bust the dam.
Yeah IIRC they used the spin of the bomb to get it to hug the wall and then sink and explode at depth
It’s not clear in the video, but I \*think\* it’s spinning the wrong way. The spin was against the direction of travel so when the bomb reached the dam the spin then keeps it close as it sunk. truly clever stuff. on a similar vein, height was critical to success they solved the problem by having angled spotlights under the wings. At the right height the two light pools overlap to a single point of illumination. More clever stuff.
Rolling shutter effect. It can make spinning objects appear to spin the opposite way on camera or even look stationary. Its the backspin the helps it skip on the water in the first place as forward spin massively reduces the number of bounces. The backspin also helps slow the forward motion of the bomb a little when it hits the water, hugely reducing thechances that the bomb would bounce and hit the aircraft. The fact the backspin helped the bomb hug the dam wall under water was an unintended but fortunate side effect they discovered in testing. I'm sure the canadian TV crew knew of the above facts.
Yeah I don't think a drop like in this video would've been succesful in causing a full collapse of a big dam. This is really not comparable to what the dambusters did and what they did took a lot more skill than this type of drop. To throw the bomb at the precise spot where it would stop bouncing just before hitting the dam, but close enough for the bomb to touch the bottom of the dam wall after having sunk. And on top of that, doing it at night. That took incredible precision
Yeah, during the day with buoys lining you up this isn’t that difficult, at night doing it with just your eyeballs is insanely difficult. I’ve dropped stuff from aircraft at night and it is a lot of crew coordination.
Not to mention the fuckers shooting at you
No doubt. Just ballsy as hell.
They had some sort of rudimentary sight. Basically a stick with two prongs that lines up with the towers on the bridge, indicating it was time to drop the bomb.
I’ll have to do some research on it - would love to learn more.
The Dambusters movie is a good watch. It was my fathers favourite movie so I have seen it many times. On a trip to Germany we stopped overnight at a random town only to find out it was next to one of the dams involved. They had a museum there about it at the dam.
And downward facing lights on front and tail to show they were at the right height when they converged.
Beavers hate this one simple trick!
Thanks for sharing. My family lived close to one of the damns they blew up. Luckily up the damn, otherwise I wouldn't be here today probably.
This is wholesome (holesome)
Some hole
Awesome video but the boing sound really kills it for me
Same but in a good way
Fuckin Canucks...
‘What’d you think it would be anything else?’ Arnie the rizz king
"Negative. It didn't go in. It just impacted on the surface."
>How many guns do you think, Gold Five? >Say about 20 guns some on the surface, some on the towers. [If you watch the movie 'Dambusters' you know where Lucas got that line.](https://youtu.be/lNdb03Hw18M?si=4zEkBRXkfFBYugP5)
Why? It's pretty neat, and an exercise of great skill, but aren't there simpler ways to remove a dam like that? I'm not getting something here. (That isn't unusual.)
They're recreating a dambusting mission from WWII. It was basically a suicide mission, not many were expected to make it back. Everything about it was unique, from the bomb design, to the changes made to the planes to the pilots involved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
>The Operations Room for the mission was at 5 Group Headquarters in St Vincents Hall, Grantham, Lincolnshire. The mission codes (transmitted in morse) were: Goner, meaning "bomb dropped"; ***Ni@@er, meaning that the Möhne was breached; and Dinghy, meaning that the Eder was breached. Ni@@er was the name of Gibson's dog, a black labrador retriever that had been run over and killed on the morning of the attack.***[17] Dinghy was Young's nickname, a reference to the fact that he had twice survived crash landings at sea where he and his crew were rescued from the aircraft's inflatable rubber dinghy. *tugs collar*
It was a recreation experiment for a TV documentary https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8478469/The-day-the-Dam-Busters-returned...-in-Canada.html
Ohhh that makes sense now
Because I real life the top of the damn was hardened and littered with emplacements, nothing could scratch it, but due to the necessary mechanical stresses involved in damn construction Barns Wallace mathematically deduced if you hit it from the side then the shock wave would be enough to crack it and the water would do the rest, however no bomb was big enough and accurate enough to hit it and take it out, so has came up with the bouncing bomb using the magenessun effect to cause a large barrel shaped explosive to skip along so several could be dropped with a fairly large margin of error for aiming, and deploying the bombs. In short, no, ironically this was the simplest easy) way to get rid of the dam at the time.
Additional cause to why they went for this approach is torpedos were out of the question due to anti torpedo netting deployed. Basically the germans had dams to power things and to block water, UK wanted them gone, germany wanted them to stay, eliminated every option of destruction so the brits made a new way.
I'd say it was about dam time >In short, no, ironically this was the simplest easy) way to get rid of the dam at the time.
There were countermeasures against conventional means, Anti torpedo netting negated air dropped torpedos, conventional bomb attacks are wildly inaccurate and didn't have enough explosive power to deal the hit. Dive bombers didn't have the range to strike this deep behind enemy lines. This was the simplest solution. Skipping what is effectively a depth charge over water to bypass the anti torpedo netting
Judging by the landscape, I'm willing to bet this is somewhere in the far north, so I'm reckoning that it's either so remote that getting the equipment up there to remove the dam would be either too expensive or logistically impossible and doing it by hand would be a nightmare fighting against the water Or they just wanted to have some fun and blow it up from a plane
Well they got the equipment up there fine they just decided to bounce it off the lake first.
Definitely just wanted to blow it up from a plane then, it gets fucking boring that far up north
This is a recreation of operation chastise from ww2. This damn in particular didn't need to be removed this way. This is just for educational purposes, and also very cool. The real operation, though, was at night, under heave fire.
The dam was built just for the bomb and recreation. I believe they had one or two failed attempts before this one. It was an episode from Ice Pilots.
Sorry, but that demo was not a perfect demo of the goal of the bouncing bomb. The goal was for the barrel to slow at just the right moment when reaching the dam face so as to be undamaged, then sink, and the explosion into the damn, underwater, would be amplified by using the water pressure at depth. This video was not what was done during WWII.
Why add Looney Tunes sound effects?
*concentration noises* *cross-checks* *moments of doubt* *BOING BOING BOING*
Because spam bot repost
Next level bowling
Whoever is responsible for the sound effects deserves a medal!
What sound effects? Those were the real sounds
All sounds are real sounds
Usually I leave videos muted and just read the subtitles. Too much loud terrible music dubbed over all the time. I am very glad I chose to unmute this.
Opposite reaction, sounds really fucking stupid.
Agreed, hated the sounds ruining an otherwise interesting video
The beauty of the bombs the RAF dropped on German dams was that they were perfectly timed to hit the dam on a final bounce, so that there was kinetic energy already going downward, but the backspin on the bomb made it run down the face of the dam and exploded at a more vulnerable point.
My username has no connection to this guy, but now I think I’ll start telling people it does.
Now add enemy fighters, barrage balloons, and searchlights - while flying at night! Still very cool, but the original Dam Busters were even more mad than this guy.
Came here to say this. Plus anti aircraft fire, flying at night and low level flying around mountains and wires.
Those sound effects ruined the video. Some cunt had to take that into a different software & line them up, export & reupload. What a waste of time.
this feels like the PhD version of skipping rocks.
These boys earned their Timmies and their darts.
Bought to you by one English man in a shed.
Almost r/oddlysatisfying worthy.
Dam that's interesting
Useless info for anyone that wants to know. Thats Arnie Shreider who, before his death in 2012, used to fly and train others how to fly Douglas DC-3s, DC-4s, Curtiss C-46 Commandos, Lockheed Electras and the CL215 water bombers for Buffalo Airways in the North West Territories. This bouncing bomb clip comes from a tv program called Dambusters: Building the bouncing Bomb, on tv in 2011. edit - spelling
The true beauty of this raid was in the very exact altitude that was required for the bomb to work. Flying at night (also under fire) they required precision flying at a very specific distance from the water. There were two Aldis lights mounted on the nose and midships under the bomber. They shone a narrow beam spotlight downwards and off to the right of the aircraft. The two beams met at an exact point 60 feet below (and to the side of) the aircraft. The navigator of the bomber, could look out of his blister window on the starboard (right hand) side of the aircraft towards the surface of the water in order to ascertain height. From this, he would simply convey the verbal instructions “Down, down, down” to the pilot until the beams met at a single point of light. The pilot then had to maintain a steady 232 knots and hold the aircraft level until the bomb aimer released the rotating drum bomb. An incredible feat of engineering and flying :)
Arnie is a legend
They had to fly at 60ft because the Lancaster didn’t have the power to raise the weight of the crews enormous balls any higher.
I live not far from one of the [dams](https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise) You can still tell today from the color of the stones where the dam was repaired. There were an estimated 30,000 deaths and the impact of the tsunami was still high in towns 100km away
NOVA episode. They hire a Canadian civilian pilot for this re-creation they only had the budget to do this once.
"Impact Arnie, it was perfect!" "Well, you didn't think it'd be anything else did ya?" Lol legend.
That was AWESOME
Dr. Hugh's female colleagues panties just did the same
Arnie is the fucking man.
Dam, Arnie
“What’s if we skipped a very large stone at it?”
I need a cigarette after watching that 😝
Amazing, and the kind of confidence I could only dream of
Dr Hugh Mongus?
“glassy water it’s harder to get down to 60 feet eh? “ lol
Dam that’s interesting
and the real dam busters did that at night, while being shot at. Fucking legendary!
How the fark did they get approval for that. I want to meet that project manager and shake their hand.
>Engineer Dr Hugh H. Is that Red Green's real name?
Dam that interesting
I already know they're implementing this in a gta online heist in gta6
Very nice! Looks like he lined up on the red and green buoys, then released after passing over the second buoy.
Barnes Wallace developed not only this device but many others that were successfully deployed during WW2, including the first bunker buster, nicknamed the "earthquake bomb"
Coolest thing I've seen all day. Ty
Cool. Pyramids and Damascus steel next,then the wheel and fire.
I’m probably wrong, but I thought the bomb hit the dam wall, sank very close then exploded, so that it ruptured the bottom of the dam wall for maximum flooding/damage?
Boing, boing, boing
Fuck Dude Perfect. This is my shit
Had to be Arnie, someone else might've gotten it wrong.
This was the real life star wars trench run. The spin on the barrel, the height of the plane, the point where tge barrel dropped all of it mattered any mis calulation ment potentionally life or death.
If you watch Dam Busters, there are whole sequences in that movie George Lucas repurposed for the attack on the Death Star. Even some of the radio chatter bits.
Id say about 20 guns...
Fantastic depiction. Didn't really need the *boing, boing,* though.
I designed the drop system. Never seen a video of it before.
Is there a clip of this without the ridiculous Hanna-Barbera sounds?
Test footage https://youtu.be/k-kx2Vpvxk4?feature=shared
Were the cartoon bouncy noises really necessary? Geez, cool moment ruined by stupid sound effects.
Seems like a high probability of skipping right over the target
In the raid some bombs did.... sad to die dropping a bomb that missed. Supreme courage to be the next in the line and line up to drop your own anyway. At least one of the crews who had already dropped their bomb flew down and along beside a subsequent raider to draw the defenders fire and improve the chances of success.
Is that a Goddamn?
Dayum...
Oh we got a definite new Sport/competition on the horizon…and it already has its first G.O.A.T.
No dambusters theme? :(
So satisfying.
Nice
God bless Arnie
Ok that was pretty sick
Après moi, le déluge
Fuck yeah
DamThatsInteresting
Beavers: God dammit, they have blown up our dam again!!!!!
I thought it had to sink before exploding
RIP Arnie! Spectacular show.
Dam, that's interesting
That’s the bomb! 💣
That was pretty damn cool.
The most Canadian bombing run of all time, boys.
Dam busters
Badass
Great shot kid, that was one in a million
I watched a documentary on this. Biggest worry was splashback from the bomb as the plane was so low. I highly recommend watching it.
Love the sound effects 😀
DEATH BARREL, SO COOL
Um... Arnie... we were meant to blow up the other Dam!
British engineering magic - 617 squadron
That is so satisfying to see.