In article ,
(ArtKramr) writes:
Subject: Opinions wanted
From: "killfile"
Date: 1/5/04 11:49 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
...
I am going to outline a real situaitoin that occured during WW II. I
would
like to hear opinions and solutions as to how the situation should be
handled.
I will give the real solutuion that was imposed during the war after a
week or
so when many opinions have been offered.

There was a large factory producing torpedo gyroscopes and timeing
devices
for the German submarine service. It was located in the midst of a very
populated area where the highly skilled workers lived with their families.
These workers were near irreplaceable. It took many years to learn the
needed
skills, and without these workers production and quality would have been
dramatically down graded. One more point. This factory was not in any
country
with which America or England was at war. What would you have done?
Remember
these German torpedoes were slaughtering American and British seamen and
denying food and arms to England. What would you have done? Opinions?

I'd have offered them more for the gyros than the Germans could pay.

Matt


Not a bad idea. (grin)

The Allies actually did something like that. One bit of intelligence
fallout after the Schweinfurt raids was that the Germans were getting
a lot of ball bearing from Sweden. The Brits (And possibley the
U.S. as well), set up an operation to buy Swedish ball bearings and
fly them to Britain.

They were flown out a ton at a time in BOAC marked and crewed
Mosquitos.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster