Happy Birthday GRAND SLAM !

[Martin Bull]

In view of a recent well-known model release, I think we should mention that 14th March was the 60th Anniversary of the first dropping in anger of the 22,000lb Grand Slam - at the Bielefeld Viaduct -

http://www.dambusters.org.uk/bielfeld.jpg

I believe that Grand Slam remains the heaviest air-dropped weapon ever ? ( That's 'real' weight, not kilotons )

[minter]

this was totally rebuilt wasnt it, i think theres an after the battle feature on it in one of their mags ?

[CFBC]

Here we go lads... Following on from M/B's piccies I did a search and found this site... Again, very interesting...

http://www.bomberhistory.co.uk/Viaduct/

Has today's shots also Minter... :)

Another site which is very interesting indeed...

http://www.barneswallistrust.org/dambusters.htm

http://www.johnmullen.org.uk/aerospce/pics/bombs.htm

[minter]

amazing, how peaceful and serene it looks today

[CFBC]

Yeah... Time and nature always wins. It's a very interesting read. :)

[minter]

Yeah... Time and nature always wins.

tis true, look at the first world war battlefields, whod have though so much death and destruction took place over those green fields and farmland, that documentry i saw on tracing wilfred owens steps was really good.