00:00It's the bomb that didn't drop. It bounced. In World War II, British engineers built the bouncing bomb, a steel
00:06sphere designed to skip across water. Why? To hit Nazi dams protected by torpedo nets. Regular bombs sank, but this
00:13one? Skipped like a stone, rolled down the dam wall, and exploded underwater, cracking concrete from the inside. It was
00:20launched by Lancaster bombers flying just 60 feet above the water at night. One tiny miscalculation, and the mission fails.
00:27But it worked.
00:28The dams broke, and the world saw a bomb bounce into history.
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