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Old 10-26-2023, 05:44 AM
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Barnes Wallis. An English engineer and inventor. He invented the 5 ton Bouncing Bomb used in the Dam Busters Raid, the 12,000 Tallboy Bomb used to sink the German battleship Tirpitz and the 10 ton deep penetration Earthquake Bomb, used on strategic German targets such as V-2 rocket launch sites, the V-3 supergun bunker, submarine pens and other reinforced structures.
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