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Title: Model haystacks!!
Post by: Puck on April 14, 2002, 10:03:50 PM

I've been reading (YetAnother(tm)) book on the air war, mostly in ETO.  One passage mentioned how poor the P38 was at dive bombing; one attempt to put a 1000 pounder on a bridge landed the bomb in a haystack.  Suddenly there was hay up at 2000 feet...THAT would be a sight.  Frame rate would go in the crapper, but it would be a sight.

It also talked about a B17 that came back with about 20 unexploded 20mm shells in it.  When technical intel took one apart they found a note in Czeck; "This is all we can do for you now".

Interesting book.  Brutal towards many of the commanders, air and ground.

Yeah, ok, this belongs in the O club, but I was enlisted and not allowed there...  :)

Title: Model haystacks!!
Post by: Taiaha on April 15, 2002, 11:10:18 AM

He places, lines up, and it's a PUNT!

I don't think we talk enough about agriculture on these boards.

Title: Model haystacks!!
Post by: Ossie on April 15, 2002, 02:43:00 PM

It could all be tied into the strat network. Modeling animals to eat the hay, and hay production facilities, convoys transporting hay. The animals would add to the productivity of its worker population (food products), which would in turn affect the production of war-waging goods (a well-fed worker is a happy worker). Take out the hay and you cripple a nation's ability to wage war.