It’s a sad but true fact that battles and wars stretch man’s creativity to the limit.
The Nazi steel industry needed about 8 tons of water to produce one ton of steel.
Most of the water was taken from three artificial lakes that were created by massive dams. The allies knew that by demolishing these dams they could create a bottleneck in the Nazis’ war machine.
But the dams were massive structures (one was 40 meters wide at the base, 8 at the top, and 50 meters high). A 30-ton bomb would be needed to create significant damage to the dams.
Unless…
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