[Milsurplus] Why Germany lost the war
Hubert Miller
kargo_cult at msn.com
Tue Mar 15 17:03:29 EDT 2016
Not correct to compare the E52 to the BC-312/342. The U.S. receiver was widely distributed down to the level
of the jeep. Different role.
The Axis lacked rationality. The model was set from the top down: irrationality. The ME-262 was misused
at first envisioned by Hitler as a bomber. The V1, V2 were expensive of resources for actual little damage they
did to Allied manufacturing. But revenge was so important to them, and crazy hope that the rockets or some other
wonder, plus their magic ideology, would save them.
( The only actual number about the missile campaign i recall at this moment is that the rocket effort took the
lives of some 25,000 slaves. At one time i knew how the math worked out in terms of slave lives per launching;
as i recall, it was 4 to 6 per rocket. ) ( But come Operation Paperclip, and all is forgiven. )
And, why would the Wehrmacht have two almost identical field radios, one with 2 volt filament tubes, the other
with 2.4 volt tubes? I don’t get it.
The Japanese, of course, were even more short of rationality. Why would a country persecute their own fighters
who escaped from enemy capture? Why in attacking a convoy, go for warships instead of the cargo vessels
with their critical supplies?
-Hue
>http://www.cdvandt.org/index.htm
One of the more useful pages I have found on German equipment, good links on the Wuerzburg radar and items like the Koln 52 receiver. I would propose that the Telefunken E52 was possibly one of the best receivers ever produced at that time. equal if not superior to things like the BC-342/348
When you’re looking at the examples of radios like the Torn Eb regenerative sets may not be that impressive but the German engineers and manufactures were not completely inept, ideas like using just one type of tube to cut down on operational spares and all modular construction to facilitate easy replacement of an entire assembly. They had a couple good ideas and remember the Germans had operational ME-262 jet fighters, the V-1 cruise missile and the V-2 ballistic missile. We may have been better at mass production and the use of interchangeable components but under the circumstances they did not do that bad, look at the junk the Russians and the Japanese put out for example.
The Telefunken E52 receivers is one of those things I always wanted to see if not own but unlike the Torn Eb not many around!
Ray F/KA3EKH
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