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Re: Hull Thickness
Posted by:
ROBERT M.
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Date: February 26, 2003 03:43AM
Rainer & Wayne;
The most frequent damage from aircraft gunnery to a U-boat (any type) was the penetration of the ballast tanks. No internal patching was possible, after those .50 caliber armor-piercing rounds tore up that thin steel plating.
In the final minutes of "DAS BOOT" film, doesn't the U-96 sink in the drydock due
to strafing by the Allied planes? That's ballast tanks being hit by aircraft gunnery, n'est ce pas?
Later,
ROBERT M.
The most frequent damage from aircraft gunnery to a U-boat (any type) was the penetration of the ballast tanks. No internal patching was possible, after those .50 caliber armor-piercing rounds tore up that thin steel plating.
In the final minutes of "DAS BOOT" film, doesn't the U-96 sink in the drydock due
to strafing by the Allied planes? That's ballast tanks being hit by aircraft gunnery, n'est ce pas?
Later,
ROBERT M.
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Hull Thickness | Wayne Hendrix | 02/26/2003 12:20AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Rainer Bruns | 02/26/2003 02:37AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | ROBERT M. | 02/26/2003 03:43AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Rainer Bruns | 02/26/2003 04:40AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | ROBERT M. | 02/27/2003 11:21PM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Rainer Bruns | 02/28/2003 01:17AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | ROBERT M. | 03/01/2003 01:38AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Rainer Bruns | 03/01/2003 04:02AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | ROBERT M. | 03/01/2003 05:16AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Scott | 02/26/2003 08:58PM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Rainer Bruns | 02/27/2003 03:13AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Scott | 02/27/2003 07:54PM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Rainer Bruns | 02/27/2003 09:40PM |
Re: Hull Thickness | ROBERT M. | 02/27/2003 10:26PM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Rainer Bruns | 02/28/2003 01:08AM |
Re: Hull Thickness | Scott | 02/28/2003 07:40PM |