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

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Personally, I think the way I'd say it is that Germany "hoped" to strike manufacturing or military sites. The crude guidance devices they used left a lot to chance, at best. And as you say, deliberate misdirection caused the initial guidance settings to become even less accurate & their "chance" went out the window.

The V-2, I can definitely see that a lot of resources went into that project, enough to have made a huge difference if applied elsewhere. The V-1 was such a basic airframe that I'm less sure those efforts would've made much difference anywhere else. As I understand it, as the war progressed, they were turning out fighters faster than they could turn out pilots. Thus, I suspect, the V-1 factories, building a stinker of an airplane, might not have added much usefulness making different airplanes. Your thoughts?

Wayne
WB4OGM

On Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 04:29:18 PM MST, Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote: 

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

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