A scene from the 1955 film The Dam Busters showing a bouncing-bomb attack against a German dam. On the night of May 16-17, 1943, RAF squadron 617 was tasked with Operation Chastise: destruction of hydroelectric dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley. For the mission, Barnes Wallis at Vickers developed a cylindrical bomb to be droppe

Since the Supreme Court ruled against "separate but equal" school facilities for blacks, the court decision has become iconic. Led by future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP, the plaintiffs argued that separate education facilities contradicted the Fourteenth Amendment and equal protection, and the court agreed unanimously.