The RAF’s famous “Dambuster” raid was officially code named this.
Operation Chrome
Operation Goodwood
Operation Chastise
Operation Waterfall
Operation Chastise was designed to destroy five Ruhr Valley dams and wipe out German industrial might at one blow. The operation destroyed two of the five dams but lost eight of the nineteen bombers.
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