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Here, a Lancaster is seen deploying Barnes Wallis's infamous 'bouncing bomb' in a training run off the Kent coast. Manufactured by Vickers-Armstrong, the bomb was designed to rebound off the surface of water allowing its detonation to be calculated and typical water defences avoided during strategic bombing runs.

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