In 1941, a British aircraft designer set out to develop a unique weapon that would detonate dams- a bomb that could skip across water, cling to its target and explode at a specific depth to deliver its coup de grâce.

SECRETS OF THE DEAD “Bombing Nazi Dams” investigates the urgent rush to create, test and deploy the new bomb, and the efforts to train an elite squadron of pilots for the unusually dangerous low-level night flights to drop it far inside enemy lines.