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Old 12-01-05, 03:03 AM   #4
Kapitän Cremer
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Yea...no doubt about the Decoy are worth the renown....

Quite a funny story actually regarding the "Bold"....

It was Hitlers idea back in 1943, while having a meeting with Dönits, that he wanted a kind of torpedo who would explode just below the surface and make a lot of bubbles and leave a massive oil spill....Dönits didn't like the thought of this countermessaure taking place in the torpedo tubes, and as such devised a plan for a seperate launch system to deploy the chemical Kobold or "Bold" on the casing of the u-boat.

At first it was extremely succesful and fooled a lot of sub-hunters, until a captured german sailor was fooled to talk about the "Bold". After that the effect was smaller since the sub-hunters now new about the "Bold", but still it fooled people....

End of history lesson today kids
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