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Rocket Attack of June 22nd 1945
Something I've never come across before, this mention of rockets on a sub. I quote:
Shortly after midnight Barb launched the first rocket attack in US Submarine history, firing 12 5in rockets into the town at a range of 5250 yards. The town being 'Shari' on the north coast of Hokkaido. Unquote This extract is from a booklet just given to me by a friend. This is full of pics photo's and the operational record of the USS BARB! steinbeck..:roll: |
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In early 1942 they launched some 180mm rocket shells from the deck of a sub. In January of 1945 one Type XXI had been converted to fire a type of primitive cruise missile from a forward tube, but it couldn't hit much and had a nasty tendency to explode after a few second's flight. Still very interesting, the dawn of the missile age is a cool period :p |
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Radar. :rotfl: |
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:up:My one word reply 'winning'
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Had the Germans spent as much on armament, as they did on pretty uniforms, and tons of decorations, the war may have lasted an hour longer. :D
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Thank whatever Higher Power you choose
that the Nazi's didn't do it all right! We could very easily be liveing in a whole different world had they done a few things differently. |
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I was think the quote should have read. Quote:
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germans had better specialty weapons but they couldn't make many of them, the US made good stuff and lots of it
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The Germans gave us the Schnorkal (sp) which in turn allowed diesel boats to run underwater full time. After WWII, we ended up with a few german boats with them. But then again, so did the Russians. I guess our first test of the Snorkal went terribly wrong, and the Cochino sank to the bottom of the sea (around 950 feet i think..) I guess water flooded in through the snorkal, shorted out the batteries, causing them to arc, causing them to explode, causing the boat to become filled with poisonous gas. |
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Also Germans were running out of oil i have heard, they were running out of resourches. Main Axis powers were Germans, Italy and Japan. Italy surrender 1943, Japan was busy fighting Us in the pacific. So it kinda was Germany vs Soviet, United kingdom, France and United states. |
I remember reading a Canadian Artillery officers assessment of German military technology. If I remember the piece right (it was many years ago), he used the breech mechanism of a 25 pounder versus an 88mm (same calibre field weapons so I guess he saw it as a fair comparison). He described the 88's breech as a thing of engineering beauty - many small finely and precisely refined parts all working together in an intricate manner. In comparison, he described the 25 pounder's breech mechanism as a simple erector set of relatively far fewer parts - a bit crude and simple, but it worked.
It could also be produced far cheaper, faster, with less material and the breech of any 25 pounder in the allied armies could be interchanged with parts from anyother. The 88 however, had a higher failure rate, and often required that specific parts be machined anew to repair the breech, as the intricate nature of the many parts meant that they could rarely be swapped out with any other part from another gun (especially as they wore together in field use). He also made mention of the Tiger tanks - wonderfully conceived machines, but vastly over-engineered under the circumstances. Despite their many failings, our inferior M13's carried the tank war in Europe because we made about 55,000 of them, to the few hundred Tigers Germany was able to churn out (and okay, we weren't being bombed to blazes while we made them either). His argument was that German/Prussian military mindset emphasized engineering perfection, while the Allies' attitude tended to be more pragmatic - things just needed to work and no more. I remember another article about the STEN gun, when a decision was made to even further simplify the design to boost production. Some worker commented that the damn things wouldn't last 5 years they were so cheap. Minister Lyttelton, Minster of Production, commented back that if they still needed them in 5 years, they were doomed anyway as the war would be lost. He didn't care if they only lasted a month or a year - he just needed lots of them ASAP. |
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BUT it was called the Schnorkel. At least thats how the Germans spelled it |
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