[Milsurplus] [OT] Bombers

[Peter Gottlieb]

I’m sure some long shots hit their target; even the German rockets did that.  Like WWII Scud missiles. 


Peter

> On Jul 31, 2018, at 4:18 PM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 
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