WWII Forums Quiz Part VII

A winner from the great State of Texabama !

 

day late & a dollar short.

Looked up

Northrup XP-56 Black Bullet, but a Pratt & Whitney

Republic XP-72, but Pratt & Whitney again

Then the (GM) Fisher XP-75 Eagle with dual mid(P-39) configuration Allisons put in a "V"

"WINNER"

too late

 

It's one of those ideas that seem good on paper but then reality sets in

 

German POW Internment Camps

UBoat Net

-whatever

-Lou

 

I was reading an article about P-51's in the Pacific.... and the author was talking about '... the greatest invention of the War.'

It was a navigation system for over the long expanses of water encountered in the Pacifc....

... and it was referred to 'Uncle-Dog'....


.... what was it, and how did it work?

-whatever

-Lou

 

A pair of VHF antennae side by side on aft fuselage of the "Twangs" tuned 1/4 wavelength apart and whichever would collect the signal first....and suppress the other receiver (the last B-29 was sending) would transmit a Morse code letter R (turn right) = "U" dit-dit-dah, and L (turn left) = "D" dah-dit-dit. D=Dog, U=Uncle.
When the 51(s) were on course to the transmitting bomber, either towards the target or home, a Hummmm would be heard/
Uncle Dog.

 

and that would be the perfect answer!

Take it away, Skonk!

-whatever

-Lou

 

Until the end of May, 1945 the newly named 20th AF (PTO) sustained one crew member loss per 30 tons of bombs dropped.
As mustangs and Navy fighters became omnipresent with the B-29s, in the last six weeks that number became one crew member for every 173 tons.

What were the numbers for the AAF heavy bombers in the ETO?

One crew member per every "blank" tons?

 

I was told there would be no math questions.


-whatever

-Lou

(...if I'd wanted stinkin' MATH question, I'd have joined a stinkin' MATH forum!...)

 

Okay.... I took Jeff's advice.... had a 'steamed towel' treatment followed by a straight-razor shave and feel much 'mellower', thank you very much!

I did a quick search, and the only thing I came up with was a Wiki link, in which they give a summary table with the total tonnage dropped, and then add the caveate

'...The figures for tons of bombs dropped by the USAAF in the summary
table should be used with caution. They may refer to the global total..​

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So, basically, they're saying 'Here's some data, but we don't know where it came from, and we're not even sure what it is, but..... whatever'

-good grief!

...still lookin'...

-whatever

-Lou

 

I hate to see anyone suffer, so a hint...

double digits...

less than 30

if you had "Impact" (the confidential picture history of Army Air Forces in World War Two), in which all eight books are just packed with endless goodies (such as this), you could just turn to page 18 of book 8 and there it would be.

PSS.. one of my last two posts has the correct two digit number in it, in the correct sequence. That narrows it down to "5" possibilities.

 

Quite a bit bloodier than the PTO.

...ei_ht__n...add a (gee) and get 18

close enough. no point in guessing again, that'd be torturous nonsense.

your go

 

The Mustang "B" had 4 50 cals, two in each wing. The inboard gun had 350 rounds and the outboard one 280.

Their feed mechanisms were designed to lift 35 lbs. This was not enough during violent maneuvers, and caused many stoppages.

Line crews came up with an on-hand (nearly)(no need for a factory re-design), fix for this problem.

What was it ?

 

Cant say I know that one. Though my google searches did enlighten me on the subject of the P-51 because im not all that big of an aircraft guy, anyways no i cant figure it out

 

Kind of a "tuffy"

Some crew Chief got the bright idea of using the motor and star gear off of a B-26 turret, (of which they had spares lying about). It worked so well everybody wanted it and so they ordered so many spares that it drew attention.
The next version of the Mustang (with six guns) had improved feed mechanisms which looked remarkably like the impromptu version.
He didn't even get another stripe for it, but I'm sure somebody higher up got an atta-boy!
Just another example of how a single soldier can make one hell of a lot of difference. Unsung & unknown

Go ahead and put a question out there Sgt.

 

Sorry for the delay, I have been quite busy in the last few days.

Which two British divisions launched an offensive in november of 1944 to capture the Geilenkirchen salient? and what was the operation named?