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Sir Barnes Wallis - (1887 - 1979), English aeronautical engineer and inventor. Designed the R100 airship, then became chief designer at Vickers, Weybridge, where he designed the Wellesley and Wellington bombers, with their revolutionary geodetic fuselarge structure. Designed the 'bouncing bomb' used by the British in WWII to destroy the great dams of the Ruhr area of Germany - the Möhne, Sorpe, Eder and others. Later developed the swing wing Tornado aircraft. Knighted in 1968.
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2001/moorcraft/Barnes%20Wallis.htm
Biography, with emphasis on his family and personal life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wallis_neville_barnes.shtml
Biography, and links to other related sites.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/dambusters.htm
The bombing of the Ruhr dams with Barnes Wallis's bouncing bombs.
http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/articles/dambusters/1.html
Three part history of the RAF's brilliant attack on the Ruhr Dams in May 1943. By David Irving.
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