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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
They sure peppered Peenemunde pretty well.

Looks like it took about a hundred bombs to actually hit something.

8 posted on 11/26/2009 1:45:31 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

I think that was quite typical of bomb placement during that era. IIRC, quite a few rocket scientists were killed and probably lots of wooden surface bldgs were scrunched by shockwave effects. But I would guess that the production facilities and work in progress were much more hardened.


9 posted on 11/26/2009 1:51:04 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
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To: decimon
Looks like it took about a hundred bombs to actually hit something.,/

Try about a thousand, or 5 thousand! The mythical accuracy of the Norden Bomb Sight was largely propaganda, within a mile was considered pretty darn good! Back in the days of dumb bombs, the shocking truth was that the massive of bombing of Germany didn't have much effect on war production at all!

What it did do was kill workers, make them homeless, or at least keep them up all night! Finally, ('44-45) by our eventual destruction of the transport infrastructure, they ran out of fuel and on the actual fronts, and ran out of fighting men. It took 5 years!

11 posted on 11/26/2009 2:23:11 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (I feel Revolutionary. Another British Leader is oppressing us.)
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