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Old 04-03-07, 07:23 AM   #6
don1reed
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Doubting Thomas'

I posted this in June 2006 on the SHIII forum:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=94608


Yes, those WWII sub/uboat skippers (all nationalities, btw) were smarter than we give them credit for. Some of those guys became scientists, architects, & engineers after the war, I'm told

...and would you believe, the entire USA Lunar project of placing men on the moon (1969) was completed before the era of pocket calculators...hmmmm.

...someone must have been using a sliderule.

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