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RE: u-boat with airplane mounted on it
Posted by: Tim ()
Date: June 19, 2001 02:20AM

<HTML>It is possible the idea was floated (pardon the pun) but it probably never got beyond paper. I know the idea of towing a V-2 in a \"launch tube\" to within range of the United States, behind a U-boat was proposed. I don\'t know if this got past the dream stage. The Japanese were big on sub-aircraft carriers. Early in the war (1942?) they did make several air raids, dropping incindiaries in the woods of Washington, Oregon area. (Somebody forgot them to try it during the dry season, not the rainy season. Oops!) And they did have the hardware for a massive attack on the Panama Canal by 44, but were unable to bring the plan to fruition. I know the U-boats did experiment with a towed gyrocopter for spotting work. Was used in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Was rejected because of the fact that if the boat encountered a warship while the thing was deployed, the pilot was in a VERY bad spot. tjk</HTML>

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u-boat with airplane mounted on it Michael L. Williams 06/19/2001 01:35AM
RE: u-boat with airplane mounted on it Tim 06/19/2001 02:20AM
RE: u-boat with gyrocopter Tim 06/19/2001 03:10AM
RE: u-boat with gyrocopter Brian Corijn 06/19/2001 01:39PM
oops! Brian Corijn 06/19/2001 01:42PM
RE: u-boat with airplane mounted on it Lawrence 06/19/2001 07:11AM
RE: u-boat with airplane mounted on it J.T. McDaniel 06/19/2001 01:14PM
RE: u-boat with airplane mounted on it Lawrence 06/19/2001 01:36PM
RE: u-boat with airplane mounted on it Antonio Veiga 06/19/2001 04:23PM


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