The Japanese Long Lance torpedoes were something to be feared, they had a range and speed that was almost unbelievable for the time, if we had them, the war, would have been over allot sooner. As it was, for the first few years in the war, the U.S. was too busy dodging there own torpedoes, as they would many times, circle around and hit the ship/boat/sub that launched them. We lost plenty of people to that.
Greg H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "gobie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 20:37 Subject: Re: [biofuel] WW2,peroxide power > The site makes for very interesting reading I especially liked the 1935 to > 1945 section. > Interesting little snippets like the British training seagulls to sit on > periscopes to make the submerged sub easier to spot. > The Japanese I Boat that fired a cluster of six torpedos at a ship in a > convoy. Three hit the target sinking it, the other three ran for a further > 12 Km, encountered another convoy, damaging two more ships and the sixth > torpedo kept going. >Contrast this to the early war scenario where torpedos > were unreliable. On sub fired off its its 24 torpedos during its tour of > duty, plenty of hits but only one exploded. However it did sink one ship > when the unexploded torpedo punctured the rusty hull.. > Regards Paul Gobert. > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
