Tallboy bomb

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 420 words | Copyright

Tallboy bomb, British 12,000 lb. (5,430 kg.) bomb, a scaled-down version of the Grand Slam bomb. It was developed by Barnes Wallis and was first used operationally in June 1944. Altogether, 854 were dropped by the Dam Buster squadron on targets which included the German battleship Tirpitz. They were used in combination with Grand Slam bombs when those became operational in March 1945. See also bombs.

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