USED DIFFERENT BOMBS
In your photo essay on AirVenture 2006 (AW&ST Aug. 21/28, p. 88), you say the Avro Lancaster carried Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs. You went on to say they were used to destroy the Ruhr dams. That is incorrect. The dams were destroyed by the Barns Wallis-designed bouncing bomb. Tallboys and Grand...
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