When the British needed a weapon capable of a near-impossible mission—destroying the mighty Ruhr Valley dams—they turned to the mighty Avro Lancaster. But its standard 18,000-pound bomb load wouldn't ...

One of the prototype bouncing bombs recovered from the Fleet Lagoon is on show at Abbotsbury Swannery. It was dropped by a Wellington Bomber during the early 1940s. Designer and inventor Barnes Wallis ...