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Re: Hull Thickness
Posted by: ROBERT M. ()
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.

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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


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