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RE: Building Uboats, at the end?
Posted by:
Takeo
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Date: July 09, 2001 11:21AM
<HTML>Hi !
Allied bombing was not as precise as one tends to believe and was effective only by the sheer mass of bombs dropped to hit a single target. It is well known that only 1 % of all dropped bombs by the allies hit relatively small targets such as, for instance, a shipyard or a railroad station. Fire-bombing cities is something else.
Also, the Flak did its work rather well and smoke was used very often to conceal targets quite effectively..
Example: in 1942 the British carpet bombed the shunting yard in Merelbeke, near Gent in Belgium, which was then the largest shunting yard in Belgium.
Result: trains were passing through again 12 hours later, but in that single raid, the bombings had killed nearly 900 Belgian civilians of which some lived as far as 2 miles from the target (in the villages of Melle and Zwijnaarde).
So it is imaginable that even if damaged, shipyards were not stopped dead by a bombing or two.</HTML>
Allied bombing was not as precise as one tends to believe and was effective only by the sheer mass of bombs dropped to hit a single target. It is well known that only 1 % of all dropped bombs by the allies hit relatively small targets such as, for instance, a shipyard or a railroad station. Fire-bombing cities is something else.
Also, the Flak did its work rather well and smoke was used very often to conceal targets quite effectively..
Example: in 1942 the British carpet bombed the shunting yard in Merelbeke, near Gent in Belgium, which was then the largest shunting yard in Belgium.
Result: trains were passing through again 12 hours later, but in that single raid, the bombings had killed nearly 900 Belgian civilians of which some lived as far as 2 miles from the target (in the villages of Melle and Zwijnaarde).
So it is imaginable that even if damaged, shipyards were not stopped dead by a bombing or two.</HTML>
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RE: Building Uboats, at the end?
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adrian | 07/07/2001 10:09AM |
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Turn question around
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SuperKraut | 07/07/2001 04:01PM |
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RE: Turn question around
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adrian | 07/08/2001 04:21AM |
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Resources
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SuperKraut | 07/08/2001 07:53AM |
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RE: Resources
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adrian | 07/08/2001 08:38AM |
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RE: Building Uboats, at the end?
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Takeo | 07/09/2001 11:21AM |
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RE: Building Uboats, at the end?
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walter M | 07/07/2001 10:14AM |