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Re: Torpedo loadouts?
Posted by:
Ken Dunn
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Date: April 17, 2011 11:27PM
Hi Guys,
The confusion about the Type II reloads has been discussed on the forums here at uboat.net before. See the thread at:
[uboat.net].
It was intended to carry 3 reloads in the Type IIs but this proved impractical and only 2 were ever carried.
Also only the G7a was carried in the external containers. They did however have their warheads but not their pistols. I examined one of the containers on U-352 before the navy pulled the torpedo and destroyed it and it definitely had its warhead but didn’t have its pistol. When I looked in the hole in the warhead for the pistol there was a fish staring back at me. Additionally there are photos of spares being loaded into the external containers with their warheads.
Regards,
Ken Dunn
The confusion about the Type II reloads has been discussed on the forums here at uboat.net before. See the thread at:
[uboat.net].
It was intended to carry 3 reloads in the Type IIs but this proved impractical and only 2 were ever carried.
Also only the G7a was carried in the external containers. They did however have their warheads but not their pistols. I examined one of the containers on U-352 before the navy pulled the torpedo and destroyed it and it definitely had its warhead but didn’t have its pistol. When I looked in the hole in the warhead for the pistol there was a fish staring back at me. Additionally there are photos of spares being loaded into the external containers with their warheads.
Regards,
Ken Dunn
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