Posted on 10/12/2018 9:31:02 AM PDT by C19fan
A Nazi submarine described as an 'underwater Chernobyl' is being sunk into sand to stop deadly chemicals leaking into the sea and the surrounding bed.
The wreckage of the German U-boat was left with 1,800 canisters of toxic mercury seeping into the sea off Bergen in Norway.
U-864 was torpedoed by a British submarine in early 1945 as it headed for Japan carrying jet parts.
The vessel left Kiel in Germany on December 5, 1944, but the hull was damaged in an attack and the captain headed for Norway to carry out repairs.
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The galleons were carrying mercury to be used to process silver mined in the Americas.
Secret nuclear jets that ran on toxic German mercury.
Flying saucers. The Mercury was being used as part of the experimental propulsion system. At least thats what I learned on the Internet.
The Japanese had a jet program just like every other combatant in the war.
That was before homing torpedoes.
Recently a pkg containing a thermometer was damaged at the local post office...
So they burned all the mail in the building.
snicker...
A couple of weeks ago I watched on a history channel(?) the story of the saga that was the sinking of U-864. It was a very detailed video.
The following link, also covers the event but is not the one I watched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH-0XY0DROk
The 25 YO Brit. was a sharp dude, firing 4 torpedos and got lucky, when the German turned into the fourth.
Exactly. It was the only time during the war that this method was tried during combat.
U-234 contained the Nazi gifts to Japan of ~1200 lbs of uranium oxide as well as a new-in-the-box (literally) ME-262. She never reached Japan and was surrendered in obedience to orders from Dönitz a couple of week’s after Hitler’s suicide.
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