Grand Slam - Ten-Ton Bomb
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- (21 Jun 1945) The RAF's 22,000lb bomb is 25 feet long and perfectly stream-lined to give it maximum penetration power. The first time the ten tonners were used was on 14th March against the viaduct at Bielefeld.
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My father was in the RAF, he told me that on one occasion he saw a Lancaster come down just at the end of the runway after taking off. He jumped on a crash tender; when he arrived where the plane had landed there was a large bomb rolling down the hill and the entire crew running up the hill.
Fake story
@@noobf8783 you sure?
Who needs precision when you have the holy hand grenade of bombs
"Maximum Penetration" 00:14
These were accurate. They were intended to undermine the structures of the target causing a camoflet, or cavity, under its foundations, and a massive shock wave through the ground to collapse large structures. They were extremely effective.
@JZ's Best Friend and your point is😴
@JZ's Best Friend I think you're missing the point. The bombs you talk of have been developed since the war. Of course the tech has got better. Back then a sledgehammer was required to crack a nut.
3 shall be the number of the count...thou shalt not count to 4 or 5...but 3 shall be the count...1,2,5
I love listening to British accents talking about destroying the shit outta stuff. Sounds so civilized
Ask India about that :))
More interesting than Jeremy Clarkson on also
My dear chap, there are four tests to discern whether a nation is civilised: first, do they speak English as a first language, secondly, do they drive on the proper (left) side of the road, third, can they make a decent cup of tea, and lastly, do they understand cricket? On this basis, is it any wonder that the English and French have been at each other's throats periodically since 1066 until we introduced them to that non-lethal form of battle, otherwise known as rugby?
We are civilised, not like big mouthed yanks. Simple.
Talihooooe
In as much as I love the b17, it would take 4 of them to carry that payload weight. The Lanc was a marvel for its time.
But a B-29 could be modified to carry one under each wing.www.google.com/search?q=b-29+carrying+grand+slam&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj67bK2xcbgAhUqTd8KHYVyAigQ_AUIDigB&biw=1536&bih=778#imgrc=obN1jWulk20t9M:&spf=1550536201285
@@Mishn0 that's incredible
Mishn0 i would like to correct that's the Tallboy bomb, which weighs around 5,400kg compared to the Grand Slams 10,000kg weight. (albeit after the war they converted these munitions to be radio-guided for use by the US).
just intended to clarify.
Mishn0 BUT IT DIDN’T.
The Lancaster was without doubt the most versatile and successful bomber of all time.
@@Mishn0 Yes and an S1 steam loco could do 150 mph. Trouble is, no supporting evidence
To this day it's still one of the biggest bombs ever made, there's not many combat aircraft that could carry that weight even now
all of US bombers could carry those. the B-52 even 3.
@@TheSwissGabber Yes, because as we all know traditional bombers are used these day. America is the only country i know of that has actually purpose made bombers
@@mrcaboosevg6089 you mean strategic bombers, because there are 3 countries that operate long-range strategic bombers: USA, Russia and China. Operating the B-52, Tu-95 and the H-20, respectively. Although China's H-20 IS a licensed copy of the Russians Tu-16 jet bomber.
As got carrying Tallboy/Grand Slam a lot of modern multirole fighters could do that.
Honestly true, our B-52 Stratofortress and maybe 1-2 of our other aircraft could, but that's about it. The MOAB we dropped on ISIS forces in Afghanistan had to be pushed out the back door of a modified C-130 cargo plane.
@@alangao4693 They only work against an enemy that has no air force which in a serious war is unlikely. America and Russia might have small uses for them as a show of force against minor combatants, China only has one because its military is incompetent as they have next to zero experience in war
The real success was the Lancaster. It could carry more than its own weight. Compared to other bombers it was in a league of its own. 22,000 lbs. the Grand Slam bomb was called the earthquake bomb as it penetrated the ground and literally shook the target down. No direct hit needed. The Lancaster’s also dropped the Tall Boys, about 12,000 lbs which would spin and penetrate hardened targets like U boat pens and the Tirpitz.
65 years later we are still defusing your bombs.
@Baron Von Grijffenbourg: The fuel used in V1 was gasoline, and the V2 used Alcohol and Liquid oxygen. Neither should have a permanent effect on vegetation growth, although I know that with copper contamination, only grasses will grow. Not positive about Gasoline's effects, maybe the additives in it.
@@31337flamer Tough shit. That's what happens when you start wars asshole. Sucks to be you, huh?
@@31337flamer Why not go tell the Israeli embassy about it and see what they say.
@@vemundr9263
One gulag ticket for subhuman fascist
Interesting fact, the footage of the bomb being released is actually shot over Fordingbridge in the New Forest. It landed on Ashley Walk range and blew the side off a hill. This particular half crater was never levelled and can still be identified although completely overgrown.
It was the only test drop they did with the grand slam and is the biggest bomb ever dropped on the UK.
Thank you for that. I love WWll history. On a side note I’m currently building a 1/72 scale Lancaster bomber. After hearing the narrator I guess I’ve been pronouncing it wrong all this time. Lol. Cheers and thanks again.
I'm a ww2 enthusiast and live in Bournemouth but I didn't know that! Thank you
@@stefankolodziej707 i grew up there in the 80s and there was still alot of evidence, chalk markings and concrete targets still there, parts of a bouncing bomb(now salvaged)and loads of shrapnel.
czcams.com/video/hbk5Bs0W6hQ/video.html here is what it looks like now.
@@malmo9585 hi Malmo, that was good of you to reply and was very interesting to watch. Thanks for that. I must go there and see them for myself now.
@@malmo9585 hi Malmo, that was good of you to reply and was very interesting to watch. Thanks for that. I must go there and see them for myself now.
And to think that was done by the same country that today will arrest you for saying mean words.
Happening here in the US too. We have become two soft pussified nations.
@@kman-mi7su Anyone who thinks the USA has become pussified has not faced our military in action.
@@josephastier7421 Umm yeah ok you've not been paying attention. And btw, I spent 8 years in the US Army and deployed as an 11B during the first Gulf War. You'd better wake up pal, its a slow, deliberate, steady march even in the military.
@@kman-mi7su I'm sorry, but I have missed your point. What are you saying?
@@josephastier7421 The man is telling you that our nations are now soft as fuck and that just because you have a large military doesn't mean you aren't soft as fuck.
You can no longer say or think what you want, even in the army.
They had a Grand Slam and Tall Boy bombs outside Barnes Wallace's Office at Brooklands. They discovered about 10 years ago that although the explosive core had been removed they were still viable weapons
Kinetic energy alone would do massive damage.
@@lairdcummings9092 yeah it could probably crush a modern tank if you drop it high enough
Isn’t the same story about the gate guards at RAF Scampton? They found they still had explosives in them when they tried to relocate them in the 1990s
I live 10km (6mi) away from where that happened and I remember my great grandmother telling me that she was able to hear the explosion over here.
Thats one of the most incredible things she ever told me. And I wished I had asked her more about those times
6 miles is nothing to hear a bomb like that, you would hear those things 50miles away most likely.
I had a neighbor who still had her German accent, one day she told me of growing up in nazi Germany and of the war. She grew up in Berlin and was 15 when the Russians were coming from the east and there was literally block to block fighting happening around her. Her mother got the family together and told them they were giving up to the Americans because the russians would kill them all. She told me a little of going through the city to head to the allied soldiers. Of course her family weren't nazis, nobody really believed in that, they just had to join the party to protect themselves! Ursula was a lot of fun to talk to, she was a great neighbor.
@@Oldbmwr100rs my great grandfather was Wehrmacht
And eventually a pow in Africa
With one of THOSE 10 ton monsters, a near-miss was, very often, as effective as a DIRECT HIT!!!
It was mostly about the effect it did, even if it missed.
andrew chambers YES, and your point IS!
Why did they use it to blow up the Eagles Nest. That just seems like wanton destruction.
Dan Zervos Oh dear, sorry about that.
Dan Zervos Oh dear, sorry about that.
Perhaps if you paid a visit to the many WW I and WW II cemeteries you MIGHT have a different perspective on WANTON DESTRUCTION.
In 2006 I visited Northern France in the area where the Battle of the Somme took place 90 years earlier.
The British memorial in Albert is perhaps the UGLIEST war memorial I have ever seen, but then it commemorated a VERY UGLY EVENT.
Military cemeteries are EVERYWHERE, you have to BE THERE to even begin to contemplate the HORRIFIC SCALE OF THE CASUALTIES.
You have NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
I was born in England in 1942 in the middle of a NAZI AIR RAID that was intent on KILLING ME, MY FAMILY, MY COMMUNITY AND MY COUNTRY.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
The 10-ton Grand Slam and the smaller 6-ton version, the Tallboy, were developed by Barnes Wallace, the same scientist who invented the bouncing "Upkeep" mines carried by 617 Squadron, the famous "Dambusters". And it was this same squadron which carried Wallis' Grand Slams and Tallboys. Beginning with the dams raid, 617 became a kind of test-bed squadron for Wallis' inventions. I highly recommend the non-fiction book "The Dam Busters" by Paul Brickhill, which covers in great detail the development of all these weapons and the role played by 617 Squadron in their use.
Basically, British equivalent of 509th
110 feet wide, 35 feet deep!!! and that’s almost 80 years ago! oh my..
the easiest way to make a swimming pool
The crater is now a pond.
Imagine if they had dropped them on the city centres, like during the 1000 bomber raids.
In the first few seconds the little girl is being sprayed with DDT to kill lice.
Yea in my day they just threw it in your face...And she probably lived to a ripe old age go figure*
Today they get peppered..
@@Cola64 DDT never was a direct risk for health but for the environment because it does not decompose and accumulates in animals over time.
@@HannibalTheC almost wiped out a couple of our birds they use to spray on the foliage off the roads
@@HannibalTheC DDT is responsible for some serious nerve diseases. Among other things, DDT poisoning is declared as polio due to a shift in diagnosis. Read up on it.
I went to school in Arnsberg in the eighties. Went over the road bridge 50 yards upstream of the rebuilt railroad viaduct every school day morning.
My grandma told me when they dropped that bomb in Germany, they could feel it in London! She did like a tall glass of Gin, so we took it with a pinch of salt...
That sounds kinda cap ngl
My best guess is it was meant figuratively, the more of those bombs dropped, the better the chances were of total victory
*What the GIN ?*
may or may not be true, Londoners could hear the roaring guns of the Somme for the week that they bombarded German Lines.
@@alangao4693 Cant find anything on London but apparently the artillery guns at the Somme could be heard from East Sussex, take it with a grain of salt tho
i saw one of these in a museum, the thing was the size of a car, absolutely massive
This grand slam bomb is a monster and would've given the Germans hell on the ground, the explosion from this would've been devastating
THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO SETTLE THIS: EVERYBODY JUST START SLUGGING IT OUT- AND THE LAST PERSON STANDING IS RIGHT!!!
The fuckin jump in speed you must feel as soon as the weight of that bomb detached from the aircraft.
Just recently I went to Scampton airshow and stood near a Grand Slam bomb. Bombs like this make me happy we have peace. Be safe and God bless.
Peace??? Where?
Sometimes you need to fight smarter, sometimes you just need to blast the target to shit
From what I've read, getting these made in sufficient numbers was a fight and a half for Bomber Command. As they love to say, they were fighting a two front war! And they weren't convinced the Luftwaffe was the tougher foe!
Can you imagine if the US used these in Vietnam, Korea, or the Gulf War
“Any moment now...”
The magic of editing. These bombs were made with 30 minute fuses. No magic sudden explosion for the newsreel.
True, but an observer aircraft filmed the raids to check accuracy.
Ten Ton Tess. Loved to make a hundred ton mess.
That’s called a nuke mate
Avro lancester is a hell of a plane !!Very good looking also!
And sounds organic 😊
Orgasmic 😢
My mother worked at the ordinance factory where the Tall Boy and Grand Slam bombs were made. She had to climb up a ladder and fill the bombs with the liquid torpex explosive from tin buckets. One time she slipped on some liquid torpex and was blown across the room but luckily there wasn't much on the floor so she survived (obviously).
Which ROF made the Tallboy and Grand slam, please.
@@ianddavidson1 Leeds i think
0:02 They made a little girl cry!
That was DDT for lice. I’d cry as well.
Oh go cry in the corner
@@monetum1392 GO shower with DDT
@@ianb9028 The fuck makes you think I meant you
That's OK, the RAF killed her a week later in a night time bombing raid on her city.
Strangely, the B-29 also carried these, but not quite. Dubbed the T-14, it was a licensed version of the grand slam with a different explosive. The b29 had to be modified to carry such a large payload. The doors and holsters or lines were cut and added. You'd be able to even see it outside of the Bombay because it's literally that large.
0:10 shows the back half was just light streamlined tail! Never noticed that before.
Rose White I READ SOMEWHERE THAT THESE BOMBS HAD A CASE-HARDENED STEEL NOSE, AND IT LITERALLY TOOK DAYS TO FILL ONE OF THESE MONSTERS WITH EXPLOSIVES-!
Barnes Wallace's understanding of aerodynamics meant that he was able to design them to go nose-first into the ground before detonating and creating a very localised earthquake. Thus they didn't actually have to strike the target itself; a near-miss could cause structures to collapse.
Mikethecabbie What happened, was the bomb would penetrate the earth about 100 feet, and then explode- the blast would create an underground cavern that would cause the ground to literally cave in under, or near the target!! The results were devastating-!!!
Rose, yes it was made of plywood!
@@mikethecabbie8476 a near miss was desirable; the weapon would create a camouflet on detonation, which is a superior way to destroy heavy infrastructure.
I love these old videos.
“Missed it by that much”
As was the design. A near miss was better than a hit, as it undermined the structure and collapsed it. About the only way of reliably taking down bridges, which are very difficult to see, let alone hit, from 12,000ft.
A near miss creates a camouflet, which is a superior way to destroy heavy infrastructure.
I read that it took a month for the liquid torpex to cool. So they couldn't make very many of these per month. If the pilots didn't drop it during the mission they were required to bring it back.
Thanks, Barnes Wallis, you were a one-off genius.
As I said in a comment on another related video, we Brits and Northern Irish might watch cricket, do crosswords, like sudoku, like cooking cakes and drinking warm beer, but we have our limits.....
I just dropped a 10 tonner in my toilet.
Well played sir!
Haha
Must've hurt your insides alot.
your brain never weighed more that 10 grams.
Rose White your mum.
"Aircraft have always been the limiting factor in determining the size of these bombs," so the film said.
Not any more.
0.12 ... week by week it builds up into a motha of a bomb. Free in part 1 the front and tail!!!
Stand by for Soaringtractor abusively to tell everyone that the Brits were lying, and that the Lancaster couldn't carry the Grand Slam any distance and that only Packard powered Lancasters could carry it at all..... despite being Lancaster B Mk 1s (Special) [not B Mk IIIs (Specials)].
++concise707++ Yeah, where is the old Wilburrr hiding himself these days? He must be at least 130 years old by now so perhaps he's up and died?
Bruh i live in Bielefeld and know the bridge
It amazes me how a plane can carry all that weight! ✈️💣
Image what releasing such a big bomb would do with the flightcharacteristics of the aircraft. Trim down max, hold your stick and pray it will all go well.....
The plane had to go straight up when the bomb released. Bet the engines went like, wooosh finally relief!
Good show old chap
Look Hans , you can see our our house on this video......💥⚡️⭐️🔥Damm!!
Greetings from Bielefeld
Check out all the craters, too many to count.
My dad was a radio operator on Lancaster bombers flew 31 ops over Germany and France 8 times to Berlin he told me when they dropped a bomb called a tall boy it was like going up in a lift because of the weight leaving the aircraft I think that was on V1 sites in France.
The bombsights used by 617 and the Pathfinders were much more complex than Main Force sights. The US Sperry sight was better but even that was not universal. It could be done but observers on the ground were needed which was a dangerous job in itself.....
Sperry or Norden?
The 617 bomb sight was called SABS - Stabilised Automatic Bomb Sight - and could do everything the Norden could do except actually control the aircraft. I read that 617 was the only squadron to use the sight.
The problem with the bomb sights was the same one that faced the use of the Cavity Magnetron. Because of the secrecy of those devices they had to be prevented from falling into the hands of the NAZIS at ALL COSTS.
That was difficult considering they were inside aircraft flying directly over enemy territory.
Certainly with the Cavity Magnetron aircraft crews were ordered to DESTROY IT NO MATTER WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES TO THE CREW OF THE AIRCRAFT.
The Cavity Magnetron was a problem because it was in essence a large chunk of solid copper, so they were surrounded by a lump of High Explosive designed to literally melt the copper.
So the Aircraft crews were flying with explosives within inches of their bodies that would have incinerated them had the explosives been triggered.
I leave those thoughts to the reader to contemplate.
"A live Grand Slam bomb (Ten Ton Tess) was mistakenly displayed as a gate guardian at RAF Scampton for nearly fifteen years before the mistake was realised. It was gingerly removed (by crane and low-loader) to the test range at Shoeburyness, where it was detonated." (From: Military Wikia.org) - I can just imagine the guys moving it in the first place saying ”Gee Whiz, this damned thing is so heavy considering it's empty". I also imagine that it had a big yellow label on it saying "EMPTY" which really meant to say "Empty Before Moving". 🎇
They really could have used a laser-guided bomb or two.
Actually this was very accurate, as its weight and streamlining minimised wind deflection. It was one of Barnes Wallis' precision weapons, long before lasers.
I hope this was sarcastic
I think just the weight of the thing would destroy that bridge lol
March 15th, 1945 ? Two months later the war was over and the allies had to repair all the damage so that they could supply the occupation forces.
What's your point? 1) Nobody had the Ouija Board to know that, and 2) maybe -- just MAYBE --- these monster bombs helped hasten the end.
Maybe they hadn't read the post-war history books.
Aside from the obvious bomb bay doors, does anyone know what additional bomb bay modifications were done to the Lancaster to accommodate the Grand Slam? It looks to me the bomb sits higher up than I expected (that is, deeper up into the bomb bay), and that raising the bomb bay upwards would impinge upon the spars, but maybe it’s just the viewing angle.
Also, and please, I don’t mean to offend, but regarding comments about the Lancaster being the alternate carrier for the FatMan/LittleBoy, can anyone provide source material for this assertion? I know Mark Felton brought this up on his channel, but his hypothesis has been throughly rebutted - not to say it was never discussed, just that official plans and procedures were not put into place. Also, I’d have thought the B-32 Dominator would have been considered first, but that is just an observation on my part - perhaps it’s bomb bay was even less suitable, and I’ve not done any research on that aircraft. Again, I do not mean any disrespect towards Britain nor the Lancaster, and if the Lancaster was indeed standing by ready to carry the atomic bombload, great! I want to read about it! I’m a lot more interested in objective history than subjective opinion , although subjectively speaking, the Lancaster is my favorite heavy bomber of the war and I’ve been learning quite a bit about it as of late. Also, I’m posting the question as it was brought up several times in pbrin’s and others comments. I’m about 1/4 the way through Leo McKinstry’s “Lancaster” (highly recommend, it’s a page turner), perhaps he’ll touch on the atomic aspect like I think he will with respect to the Grand Slam.
As for the grandslam in the Lancaster, I’m not sure if the bomb bay was raised, with the bomb doors removed and front and rear sections of the bay made aerodynamic, it may be the visual difference making the grandslam look like it’s tucked up higher?
Other modifications were the lack of front and top gun turrets, I think the removal of the armor plating behind the pilots seat, stronger landing gear and bigger wheels and tyres, which make the Lancaster look like it’s sitting higher. That’s all I know.
As for using the Lancaster to carry the atomic bombs, I believe the B-29 did use the Lancasters bomb carrying infrastructure - meaning whatever the bomb attached to in the bomb bay, sorry the word escapes me! I believe it was a stronger unit for such a weapon.
I hope this helps.
Also. Search ‘ Nigelsmodelingbench’ on youtube, on the 4th January 2024, he reviews a Lancaster grandslam model kit in which he discloses some usefull knowledge of the aircraft. You’ll need a spare 90 minutes…
I wouldn't have liked to have been on the receiving end of that.....
Is the film footage of the Grand Slam bomb being loaded available for purchase to show in a film documentary?
Big ass bomb, I'm shocked that plane was able to fly with it.
Those Lancs were heavily modified to carry it (No dorsal turret, body cut away where the bomb bay would be)
@I'LL BE BACK ! also called lightening the airframe. They where just as smart in doing that though
The stock Lancaster could carry more than it's own weight. They had to modify them to carry the 10 tonners... they could only carry one and were heavily modified - including bigger engines, bigger propellers, an extra fuel tank and beefed up landing gear to support the total weight.
@@mikem2736 and!!
I'll bet you the bomber leaped 30 feet after it released the 20-tonner bomb!
Heroes!
Killers! War crimes against the civilian population on the order of Bomber Harris.
They were going to use the Lancaster bomber to drop the A Bombs on Japan, because the Lancaster was the only plane that could carry the it with little modification. US Pride got in the way though, and they had to heavily mod the B29 to drop it.
Could have dropped them both sooner, and saved even more lives.
I don't know, the Soviets having broken diplomatic communications and amassing at the Northern border of the Empire played a decisive role as well.
That bomb would still be devastating today if used
@Dana William that's right, attack and kill the enemy. Civilian casualties in war isn't a good thing, luckily modern wars aren't like WW2
@Dana William 22,000lbs is still pretty heavy for a bomb and the explosive power of a grand slam would still be deadly today if it were still used
@Dana William thanks for the education sir, you know your bomb stuff
It was still being used by the US in the 2000s.
US has the GBU-43/B, which is almost exactly the same weight...
i wonder what the first pilot was thinking after he pushed the throttles up,,, "hope they got it right...."
Still not bigger than my farts
The world’s heaviest non-nuclear bomb until very recently, heavier even than the American MOAB (21300 lbs). The only non-nuclear bombs heavier are the American MOP (30000 lbs) and the Russian FOAP.
22000 pounds is still heavier than the yanks MOAB!
We did not drop enough of them.
Should have dropped them on the city centres.
at 1:07 that bomb is going straight towards some houses...then it cuts forward to some hitting a bridge
damn that's one big ass bomb. ..
Maximus Vetti yeah. I just want to ask you a question, do you know what the bomb was for?
your nightmare
Was that DDT being sprayed on that little girl?!
I want to know what was going on with that kid at the very beginning.
Dusted with Lice / Flea powder.
Delousing.
I think the 22,000 pound bombs are still the biggest conventional explosives even today!
Shot on iPhone
What a genius Barnes Wallace was
Imagine we could drop one on Brussels using the EU HQ as the aiming point!!!
“By this attack, the arnsberg viaduct was destroyed…and most of arnsberg.” 1:34
"Precision attacks"
Yeah ok
Actually not a precision attack - which was a huge problem for all level bombardments at that time. The bridge presented on the movie had been raided with many bombers that had used traditional explosive bombs - and they hit everything but the bridge. The idea of the grand slam bomb was that it would penetrate deep into the earth and then detonate - creating local small earthquake that would demolish all structures nearby. And that what happend there - the bomb never hit the bridge directly but the ground in the vicinity.
Mr Wolfe Actually 617 squadron could hit very precise targets. They were the first squadron i RAF to use the SABS bombsight and they could put all their bombs within a circle of 100m which at that time was pretty accurate. Most of their bombs hit within a 25m circle. They were also the squadron that sank the Tirpitz.
Obviously you dont like the British, that's your problem. 617 WAS accurate compared to the carpetbombing used by everybody else in Europe. The two first raids against Tirpitz was failures because of cloudcover and a very effective smokescreen. In the third raid there were no smoke or clouds and the ship was sunk. Actually one of the bombs in the second raid hit and damaged Tirpitz. that's why it was moved and then within reach from Britain. The USAF in their day raids used a particular nasty form of carpetbombing in that it was only the lead ship that actually aimed, all the other bombers dropped their bombs when the first one did. The Lancaster and the B17 was roughly same size and yet the Lanc carried more bombs, longer and faster. The B29 was great, absolutely and could undoubtedly do the things you claim, i have never said anything else and yet they too used carpetbombing against Japan, that is until the two biggies.
I can reccomend reading Paul Brickhills book "The Dam Busters", then perhaps we can debate facts and listen: I'm not saying that the Brits didn't use carpet bombing, they did, i AM arguing that 617 Squadron was the exception that prooved the rule.
For Bomber Command, yes. Remember that on other raids, other bombers at the time were told that while it was nice to get the aircraft factory in the district, their primary target was the entire built-up inhabited city area around it. For every primary target they couldn't hit with precision, any encompassing urban area around it was acceptable and the more scatter, the better.
In respect of the raid on the Bielefeld viaduct the RAF was indirectly responsible for the closure of the viaduct again 40 years later when the steel structure used in the oringinal repair needed to be replaced. The good peaceful thing that came out of it though was that the bomb craters were dug out and the area turned into a boating lake.
Would be an interesting question to pose in a Public School math class.... "How many pounds are in 20 tones?" One kid says "20 tons worth"... another said "Twice as many as 10 tons"... a third kid says "IMPEACH TRUMP!"... and the remainder of the class are sexting on their smart phones. All receive a gold star sticker, a trophy, and a bumper sticker to give to their parents that says "My child is Proficient."
The primary objective of the education system is to turn out good little compliant leftist vegetables.
The second viaduct in Bielefeld is now called the Obersee, a very pleasant place for a Sunday walk; it froze this year so we went ice-skating. Like so many other allied targets it was of no military value, or indeed any other, having been superseded some considerable time beforehand by the Gummibahn. I don't know whether those later raids were revenge or sheer bloody-mindedness.
like the German bombing of civilian cities, remember the Germans started the whole bombing of civilian cities in the Spanish civil war, and also they started it.
The actual mother of MOAB and she goes too...see the Brit's ain't that stupid when it comes to it.
You need to catch up on your WW2 history. That design of that weapon was actually American. General Lemay and General Spatzs came up with idea. They were going after Hitler's bunker but never did.
@@johndavis1847 yes and the nukes that America dropped on Japan were invented and designed by the English what's your point?
Actually John it was Barnes Wallace who came up with the idea of both the Tallboy and Grand Slam years before The USA entered the war. Aircraft technology prevented the development of the bombs until later variants of the Lancaster appeared with high horsepower Merlins.
Barnes Wallace proposed a Victory bomber to carry them but this concept didn’t gain traction at the time.
The US did produce the Grand Slam later in the war and used them up to the Vietnam war if memory serves.
@@ianb9028 Indeed, you can find a lot of good info on these bombs on youtube, US Generals had nothing to do with but adopting them for use after they were designed and manufactured by britain.
PS : I'm french so beleive me i'd diss the british if i could, but facts are facts, and no partisanship should change that, get your act straight John, your info is invalid.
@@ianb9028 Idea of it? Ideas are easy, making it reality is another thing all together
thanks
That's the largest supposetory every delivered to the Right!
National Socialists are "Right"? Better do a little more reading, Snowflake.
@@pennyrobinson9772 ...dear Penny... You seem to be THE expert on absolutely Everything !!* Well , know it alls do Not know it all. Yeah the Nazis were to the Right and the Commies were to the left.. The difference in the end resut was small...philosophy mostly. But human needs to Grab Maximum power will always be a big problem in Balance.
@@michaelcelani8325
"We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system!"
Gregor Strasser-- early and influential leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, aka "Nazis".
Also: "We National Socialists want the economic revolution involving the nationalization of the economy...We want in place of an exploitative capitalist economic system a real socialism, maintained not by a soulless Jewish-materialist outlook but by the believing, sacrificial, and unselfish old German community sentiment, community purpose and economic feeling. We want the social revolution in order to bring about the national revolution."
And: "We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism."
(You should note that many contemporary national socialists describe themselves as being "Neither left nor right, but a third position." Search up "Third Position" for some startling material.)
"The worker in a capitalist state - and that is his deepest misfortune - is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker. He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces. Labor is for him only a way to survive, not a path to higher blessings, not a joy, not something in which to take pride, or satisfaction, or encouragement, or a way to build character. ...
We call ourselves a workers' party because we want to free labor from the chains of capitalism and Marxism."
Joseph Goebbels
"Individuals come and individuals die. The community that always rises from them, however, the nation, should be eternal."
Adolf Hitler
Let us note that the quote from The Leader Himself is =extremely= non-"right-wing", averring as it does that the individual is unimportant, and is absolutely antithetical to modern American conservative thought which denigrates "the masses", or that idea as presented by the left, precisely in favor of the individual.
Show me the right-wing part.
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Do you have the sources for the quotes mentioned in your comments please Penny
@@jayytee8062 I think most were off of here: www.nationalists.org/quotes/nazi-germany.html
Such cheerful music😊
So sad what people develop to kill each other!
Yeah, war never solved anything
except to DEFEAT THE NAZIS, COMMIES AND FREE THE SLAVES.
Justin Nother ...AND PUT THE NAZI DEATH CAMPS OUT OF BUSINESS...!!!
I think this one was aimed more towards infrastructure, but I'm sure they've ended more than a few peoples lives too.
bucky13 WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!!
@@sockdolager3884 Well would ! You ! Have Preferred !! To Have !! Them ! Win !!??
I bet those moded lancs flew like the wind on the way back with all that streamlining and weight reduction.
Allahu Akbar of 40's.
NoobIsrael Islamic filth and garbage from hell Allah Satan
I remember reading that there was aquite alarming bend in the Lancasters wings when it took off with the Grand Slam.
2:13 its like watching something from Tom and Jerry, only about seriously deadly weapons of war xD lmao
I question the need for that thing to even need to explode. Dropping a 10 ton block of steel from 2.26 miles up onto a bridge would be devastating enough, packing it full of explosives is just showing off.
Nah. The idea was that the bomb would penetrate the ground and detonate at a certain depth. Shockwaves through the earth would then undermine the foundations of the viaduct (or building, or whatever) and bring it down. The Grand Slam was also known as the 'Earthquake Bomb'. The dambuster bomb worked on a similar principle: bounce across the water, hit the dam wall, sink to a certain depth then detonate. That sent shockwaves through the wall, causing cracks, and the wall would collapse under the huge pressure of water. All the brainchild of Barnes Wallace.
MSN Valentin: The German U-boat Pen That Survived Multiple 22,000-Pound 'Grand Slam' Bombs
There is some video(film) of the attack on Heligoland with Tallboys and Grand Slams. Its wrongly labelled and appears at the end of TAF2 gun camera film held at the IWM film archives. The plooms of earth they throw up and shockwaves look very impressive, even from the height the camera aircraft must have been flying at.
They destroyed the Tripitz with the Tall Boy a 5 ton version similar to this . Dropped from over 15000 feet. I have seen a film of the attacked they had direct hits with at least 2. I saw another video of 2 young women filling this bomb with Torpex (I think) . Standing on a ladder pouring bucket loads into the casing.
I live direct next the Arnsberg viaduct, once i met an old vet. And he said he was happy when they finaly hit it because the town was bombed 3 years day and night and nearly everything was destroyed. I dont know if he meant it serrious but he said, if it would last longer he would blast it up by himself just to have silence 😂
I wonder how high will jump the plane after bomb release..
I was thinking the same, the plane would suddenly lose half its weight and and the pilot had to be ready for the massive change in control at the very least!
They were known as "clapper aircraft" as due to their lighter weight and the dropped bomb they went like the clappers on the flight home
What was going on right at the start????
10 tonner. What about 10k tonner?
Incredible to see if you live 5 minutes away from Arnsberg...
Yo where is this in war thunder
When Britain had brains and morality.
WOW! Looks like they created a Fishing/Swimming Hole for the Germans, along with a roller coaster.
The viaduct was destroyed - not surprisingly