Eder Dam

In Call of Duty
The dam is rebuilt and the player, a British Special Forces agent, must sabotage AA guns on the dam during the summer of 1943, when in fact the mission is happening on Sept. 2nd, 1944 a year after the actual date of "Operation Chastise".

In World War II
The dam was a part of Operation Chastise, it was destroyed by special bouncing bombs dropped by British Lancaster bombers of No. 617 Squadron RAF in the early morning of May 17, 1943, creating massive destruction and loss of life downstream. Through the breach in the dam, 70 meters wide and 22 meters deep, water emptied at the rate of 8,000 m³ per second into the narrow valley below, a total of about 160 million m³. A flood wave of 6-8 meters in height roared through the river valley as far as 30 km downstream, before it diminished in the widening floodplains of the lower Eder, the Fulda and the Weser. About 70 people perished[1] (some non-German sources erroneously cite[2] an early total of 749 for all foreigners perished in all POW and labour camps downriver of the Möhne dam as the casualty at supposed POW or labour camp just below the Eder Dam.)