tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post25873671328919491..comments2024-03-28T13:57:27.683-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : WW2 RecreatedComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-80248025936680930272012-01-18T07:20:09.629-05:002012-01-18T07:20:09.629-05:00Thanks for the promo link.
The Möhne dam is just ...Thanks for the promo link.<br /><br />The Möhne dam is just down the road from here, bout 40 miles. If you're ever here, we can go see it (not at 60 feet though ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-56284024352293118702012-01-17T08:06:12.906-05:002012-01-17T08:06:12.906-05:00Stu, here is the promo. A Brit engineering profes...Stu, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UHQPlKxXVA" rel="nofollow">here is the promo</a>. A Brit engineering professor found that there were no surviving records of how it was all done, so he recreated it. They built a dam, engineered a scale-model bomb and used a DC-4 to drop it.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-36041927544752084372012-01-17T04:11:20.565-05:002012-01-17T04:11:20.565-05:00Interestingly, this video won't show here in G...Interestingly, this video won't show here in Germany "due to a rights issue".<br /><br />So all I can see is the still on your blog. THAT is not a Wellington!<br /><br />But then, the Hollywood movie about capturing an Enigma from a German U-boat postulated an american hero instead of the Brits who actually did it :-(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-80861599642699964092012-01-16T18:47:07.852-05:002012-01-16T18:47:07.852-05:00I remember hearing about this several years ago an...I remember hearing about this several years ago and it looks like the same show.<br /><br />I remember they had trouble with the bombs skipping clear over the dam at first.<br /><br />They had to be pretty exact in their heighth, timing and air speed.<br /><br />One more example of peoples ability to think outside the box when it comes to killing other people.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15695733883033137146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-12193994194709053062012-01-16T17:24:59.011-05:002012-01-16T17:24:59.011-05:00Marc, I do follow that one.
For everyone else, ...Marc, I do follow that one. <br /><br />For everyone else, it is <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/RealTimeWWII" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-69937406111425207312012-01-16T17:18:24.064-05:002012-01-16T17:18:24.064-05:00If you're on Twitter, you may want to follow W...If you're on Twitter, you may want to follow WW2 Tweets from 1940 (last year was from 1939). They're livetweeting the war as it happens on this day and time, for the next few years. Nice dose of history that you'd not normally get in school.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09680604981092904582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-49781410643597898422012-01-16T14:03:08.091-05:002012-01-16T14:03:08.091-05:00Considering how little reason we had to start a wa...Considering how little reason we had to start a war with Iraq, I'd say they still sign up for any hare-brained scheme...<br /><br />Anyhow, I saw the show the other night, and liked it. It's a good documentary of how things go when you're engineering to a tight schedule, so I'd say that it even modeled the original bomb-makers' engineering process pretty well.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-6883649214911159882012-01-16T11:18:46.587-05:002012-01-16T11:18:46.587-05:00I watched that the other night.
Talk about Big Bra...I watched that the other night.<br />Talk about Big Brass Ones...<br />Nowadays one gps guided 500 pounder would have saved all those lives.<br />Back then you signed on for any hairbrained scheme they could think up. Watched another program about the "Chindigs" in Burma. What a brave but wastefull use of Human lives. War really must suck.<br />w3skiw3skihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13993709956954374919noreply@blogger.com