sentences:  A related concept, the bouncing bomb "was" developed and used in World War II, to be dropped into water as a means to destroy German dams and cause loss of industrial capacity and widespread flooding.Tests were conducted by Professor Thomas Leech, of the University of Auckland, in Whangaparaoa off the coast of Auckland and off New Caledonia between 1944 and 1945.British and US defence chiefs were eager to see it developed, and it was considered potentially as important as the atomic bomb.