what happened to the lancs?
"Anyone kow what happened to the Lancs modified to carry the bouncing bomb. Were they returned to standard configuration or kept in case they were required for further missions?"
According to the book "The Dambusters" the ones that survived the raid were rapidly returned to conventional configuration as they were desperately required for Bomber Commands saturation raids on Germany
This came to be a problem later when 617 were tasked to sink Tirpitz in a Nowegian fjord. The Upkeep bombs would have been ideal for hopping over the anti-torpedo nets. Instead 617 had to use "Tallboy" earthquake bombs (another Barnes Wallis design - they must have loved these suicide missions with his designs)
I've read somewhere that toward the end of the war a squadron of similar spherical Highball-fitted Mosquitos were sent out to the far east to attack Japanese shipping, but the Yanks refused to have them around and sent them back. Anyone know more?
ah -edit, courtesy of Google
618 Squadron had the Highball Mozzies, but never got to use them in anger it seems