ATG Letter: Simple aiming instrument was stroke of genius for the Dambusters
MADAM – With reference to Tom Derbyshire’s article ‘The button that bust the dam’ (militaria special, ATG No 2305), I would like to highlight the part that Wing Commander (later Air Commodore) CL Dann, head of aeronautics at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), played in inventing the simple aiming instrument that was to be adopted in the successful bombing of the Möhne dam in 1943.
My late father, Professor AD Baxter, who was a propulsion researcher at the RAE, was present at a …