Heavy bomber version of the bouncing bomb, was used to destroy the Mohne and Eder dams by Lancasters from the specially recruited and trained 617 Squadron, often known as the Dambusters, under Wing Commander Guy Gibson. In March and April 1945, as the war in Europe was ending, Lancasters dropped Grand Slams and Tallboys on U-boat pens and railway viaducts across north Germany. At Bielefeld more than of railway viaduct was destroyed by Grand Slams creating an earthquake effect, which shook the foundations. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a development of the Fortress, but a larger design with four Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone
Wing Commander (video game) most lucrative type of computer game. In 2006 Electronic Arts ported the SNES version of Wing Commander to the PlayStation Portable as part of "EA Replay", released in the United States on November 14, 2006. In August 2011, after many years of unavailability, the "Wing Commander I" PC version was re-released into the digital distribution on gog.com. The long lost source code of "Wing Commander I "was given to the fan-community in August 2011 by a former developer for the purpose of long-time preservation. "Wing Commander" became a best seller and caused the development of competing space combat games, such