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RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot
Posted by: Anders Wingren ()
Date: June 12, 2000 05:48PM


Hi again Les!

In summer of 1940 Squadron Leader Humphrey de V. Leigh RAF,
a veteran pilot of WW I,conceived the idea of installing a 24 inch searchlight
in the lower turret of a Wellington bomber.They functioned in the very way
"Superkraut" describes it,and by June 1942 the first "Leigh-Light-Wellingtons"
began to make night a/s patrols over Bay of Biscay.

Regarding losses:The Germans reckon that they lost 32 000 submariners lives,
from 781 U-boats lost to all causes.

Sources:
Konteradmiral Godt,speech at Hamburg War Memorial,16 th May 1954.
Roskill:War at Sea.Vol.I.Page:358.
Padfield:War beneath Sea.Page:282.
Morison:Hist of US nav oper in WW II.Vol.X.Pages:53,363.
Best regards/Anders.

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"Lee light" and "Huff Duff" Les 06/12/2000 07:32AM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Sergio Ferraro 06/12/2000 08:08AM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot SuperKraut 06/12/2000 01:16PM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Kevin 06/12/2000 03:41PM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Anders Wingren 06/12/2000 05:48PM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Anders Wingren 06/12/2000 09:29PM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Kevin Mc Dermott 06/17/2000 09:16AM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Wheete 06/24/2000 06:23AM
RE: "Lee light" and "Huff Duff&quot Anders Wingren 06/24/2000 09:46AM


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