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Barnes Wallis was born in Ripley, Derbyshire, to general practitioner Charles George Wallis (1859–1945) and his wife Edith Eyre (1859–1911), daughter of Rev. John Ashby. The Wallis family subsequently moved to New Cross , south London, living in "straitened, genteel circumstances" after Charles Wallis was crippled by polio in 1893. [ 6 ]
Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, [1] [2] was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special bouncing bombs developed by Barnes Wallis.
A.R. Collins was among a large number of other people besides Barnes Wallis who made wide-ranging contributions to the development of a bouncing bomb and its method of delivery to a target, to the extent that, in a paper published in 1982, Collins himself made it evident that Wallis "did not play an all-important role in the development of this ...
Prior to his death, he was living in the Norfolk village of Reymerston. Old Buckenham Airport held a memorial event on 29 September 2013 at the request of the Wallis family: "A Celebration of the Life of Wing Commander Ken Wallis". [20] It had been expected that about 500 people would attend, but an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 attended the event.
Wallis died at 2 p.m. Thursday at the hospital, according to the coroner’s office. Wallis’ cause of death was listed as blunt trauma and the manner of death as accidental.
Barnes Wallis' idea was to drop a large, heavy bomb with a hard armoured tip at supersonic speed (as fast as an artillery shell) so that it penetrated the ground like a ten-ton bullet being fired straight down. It was then set to explode underground, ideally to the side of, or underneath, a hardened target.
Garrison Brown’s official cause of death has been revealed by the coroner.. Brown died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to an autopsy report obtained by People on Wednesday, May 15. His ...
An earlier report about Ailes' suspected cause of death had alleged that he'd fallen into a coma on Wednesday night as a result of the complications and passed away hours later.