April 6th 12, 10:37 AM
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B-17s straffing & IJN Aoba, & UK POWs
"Nightjar" wrote in message
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On 03/04/2012 17:49, David E. Powell wrote:
On Apr 3, 1:18 am, Bill wrote:
wrote:
So, by then, the B-17 crews had figured out that high altitude
level
bombing of moving ships wasn't working out very well?
Did anyone ever try equipping the B-17 with torpedoes?
Well, sorta.
http://tinyurl.com/7sr3lmu
Thank you! If this was 1940 than this stuff is huge! It's huge
either
way, but wow!
The GT-1 does not seem to have been tested until 1943, so the
caption has to be wrong. The British Toraplane, a similar air
launched gliding torpedo was around in 1940*, but, of course, that
would not have been launched from a B-17.
* Work started in 1939 but was abandoned in 1942, as it proved to be
very inaccurate.
Colin Bignell
A field-expedient PBY torpedo attack from Guadalcanal:
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/cactus/jackcram.htm
jsw
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