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Old June 24th 04, 04:46 PM
Chad Irby
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote:

Neither "missile" would be capable of breaching TG. For gosh sakes, people,
TG is a friggin' GRAVITY dam--its a large concrete monolith! Folks keep
comparing this to the Ruhr dams--but weren't they *arch* dams?


Nope. They were arch-*shaped*, but the Moehne and Eder were gravity
dams.

Oddly enough, the RAF officers who thought the mission wouldn't work in
1943 were saying pretty much the same things you're saying now. "The
bombs aren't big enough, you can't put them in place, the risk isn't
worth it..."

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