Dambusters – How Avro’s Roy Chadwick played a crucial role

Without the input of the Avro designer, the dams raid would not — as acknowledged by Barnes Wallis — have been such a success Avro chief designer Roy Chadwick (left) and Wg Cdr Guy Gibson at Buckingham Palace on 22 June 1943, when Chadwick was invested with the CBE and Gibson awarded his Victoria Cross. VIA MARGARET DO Much is known about the part Barnes Wallis played in development of the weapon that destroyed the Möhne and Eder dams in