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Old 07-30-18, 02:31 AM   #5
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I'm guessing if it has any basis in real life he might be describing a 'duct' where sound gets bounced between the surface and a temperature layer to be detected a lot further away than you'd expect. (They model this in Cold Waters). I haven't heard of any noise maker like this in WW2 and I doubt the technology existed back then in a way that would be practical.

Iron Coffins is not a very historically accurate book. There's a ton of downright whacky stuff in it that is clearly bull****. Nobody is quite certain if Werner was just embellishing things, mis remembered what happened or an overzealous editor/ghost writer tried to spice the story up a bit.
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