[Milsurplus] Asheville NC Radio Museum looking for proximity fuse for display

[Hubert Miller]

>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Asheville NC Radio Museum looking for proximity fuse for display

Basically unguided missiles with crude steering devices such as the V-1 & V-2 were, were not really expected or meant to impact the industrial output or the military. They were terror weapons, intended to demoralize the population & perhaps induce them to force leaders to negotiate with Germany. They did deal out death & destruction & were successful in that direction but it seems they only galvanized the sentiments against Germany, so they failed in that direction, too.
Wayne
>WB4OGM

Actually, the Reich DID try to damage industrial areas in the UK. But the misdirection information radioed back to Germany gave strike locations offset by miles. The idea being
to get the launch information set even less accurately. The death and destruction caused  in the UK and later, Netherlands no doubt aroused chortles of good humor in Germany,
but it was not at all a worthwhile use of resources. The  thoughts about bombing or rocketing New York City were even more fantastical.
I saw this video the other night about German POWs in the USA. Some of the early captured had near their bunks in POW camp, swastika emblems or pictures of A. Hitler, and if
you didn't agree, you better keep your thoughts to yourself, or you could end up dead. May 8 1945 called for a huge reorientation of their mindset. 
-Hue Miller