Moehne Dam defences

Date: 1944 Reference: MFQ 1/634 Creator: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of various departments held at the Public Record Office, Kew Catalogue context: Germany: Möhne Valley. 'Organisation Todt. Oberbauleitung Möhne. Holzabweiser'. Plan, section and elevation, with MS additions. Produced by Heinrich Butzer, builders, Dortmund, 8 February 1944. Corrected 2 March 1944. MS note reads: 'Drawing of the defence erected on the Moehne dam after the attack. Supplied by Herr Wildbrett of Heinrich Butzer, the resident engineer. Probably the only copy in Britain'. The Möhne Dam was breached during Operation Chastise (the 'Dambusters' raid) of 16-17 May 1943. Categories: Overseas; Second World War Subjects: Operation Chastise; Dambusters; Air Force; Archives and libraries; Europe and Russia; Maps and plans Topics: International trade and affairs; Land and buildings; Military and war Period: Second World War Copyright information: Copyright clearance for publication is not required, except in the case of documents in third-party copyright. Usage terms: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/use-of-tna-materials.pdf