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RE: U-134 vs. K-74
Posted by: Marc Haldimann ()
Date: August 26, 2001 10:21AM

<HTML>Hi Tim,

I\'m not sure that the recoil would really blow a new hatch in the boat\'s hull... You have to bear in mind that the standard tactic for attacking planes was to zoom in at a comparatively low airspeed and at a height between 50 and 100 feet. If you keep those figures in mind, you will notice that there is really not much elevation needed to bring even an 105 mm gun to bear in the general direction of the incoming plane...

We all agree that using the main armament on a wildly pitching and evading U-boat is a wild idea in itself but this was done at least once aboard U-172. The doctine of her KL, Emmermann, and his responsible AA coxswain Herbert Plottke was that the AA crew should start shooting with all tubes while the incoming plane was still out of range, this in order to force the pilots to turn away before they were committed to go in. The use of the 105 mm gun of course tremendously boosted the range at which AA fire could be seen from the crews of the attacking Liberators and though no hit was scored, certainly kept the attacking planes from any low level slow speed run in... Though totally unorthodox, this tactic did work on 7 April 1943 and U 172 returned unscathed to Lorient.

Best regards

Marc</HTML>

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U-134 vs. K-74 Tim 08/24/2001 12:57AM
RE: U-134 vs. K-74 Joe Brennan 08/24/2001 04:35AM
RE: U-134 vs. K-74 Tim 08/26/2001 03:41AM
RE: U-134 vs. K-74 Marc Haldimann 08/26/2001 10:21AM
RE: U-134 vs. K-74 Tim 08/27/2001 04:13AM
Re: RE: U-134 vs. K-74 TF 09/22/2015 05:08PM
RE: U-134 vs. K-74 Marc Haldimann 08/24/2001 05:06AM
RE: U-134 vs. K-74 Rich Mickle 08/25/2001 07:08PM
RE: U-134 vs. K-74 Joe Brennan 08/25/2001 10:28PM
RE: U-134 vs. K-74 Rich Mickle 08/26/2001 05:39PM
RE:Battle damage Joe Brennan 08/27/2001 05:01AM


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