[Milsurplus] [OT] Bombers

[Hubert Miller]

A recent military magazine had an interesting article about U.S. bombing cities in Switzerland, one was Basel, by mistake. 
Some of the U.S. bombers were shot down by Swiss fighter planes, standard fighter planes bought from Germany. In
 addition, a good number of U.S. bombers made emergency landings in Switzerland. The article said such interned aircrews
were viewed with skepticism among U.S. fliers, but after war's end, when something like 100 U.S. planes in Switzerland were
examined by U.S. technicians, only one or two were considered still flyable when they had landed.

I always wondered about some of the extreme range torpedo attacks I'd read about. I don't recall the distances given, but 
any submarine account from the Pacific War should give those. I always wondered that the heavy medium that the torpedoes
travelled, with wave action and currents, wouldn't disturb the torpedo's path. But then you have the instances were a torpedo
looped, ran a great circle, came back and destroyed the submarine. How could that 'accuracy' happen, I wonder ?
-Hue