AAA at Bataan/Corregidor

JDupre5762 wrote:

The Army Sally bombers that participated in the final attacks on Bataan at
the
end of March bombed from "9,600 yards" altitude and used a variety of bombs
ranging from 50kg "daisy cutters" to 250kg demolition bombs, according to
these
debriefs, which consist of hundreds of pages of transcripts and
documents.
Hard to get decent accuracy from that altitude, so the US AAA must have been
giving them fits.

Any confirmation of the story that a supply of proximity fuse AA shells was
brought to Corregidor by submarine and then hoarded until the Japanese planes
presented a nearly perfect target?

Since the prox. fuse didn't enter service until early 1943(and then only for the
5"/38), this story is easily disproved. BTW, I wouldn't take the AA claims as
gospel. I'm currently reading John Lundstrom's "The First Team At Guadalcanal,"
and AA and fighter claims (on both sides) are as exaggerated as you'd expect,
given the large numbers of a/c involved. The marines at Guadalcanal had 90mm
guns along with a pair of SCR-270s (one used for early warning/GCI). Betties
normally approached Guadalcanal at altitudes of 7,500 - 8,500 meters, generally
dropping about 1,000 meters or so for the bomb run itself.

Guy