GUN CONTROL

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Francis Morin

We won the War in the Pacific Theater- IMO- due to our developing technology- the proximity fuze, which reduced the number of shells required to kill a Zero fighter plane from 2600 to 400, the electric torpedo with the homing device, the thermite bomb, the great Corsair F4-U (a P-51 Mustang with retractable folding wings for carrier usage- again IMO) the Norden bombsight, the Manhattan project, :

Let us not forget the considerable military advantage we found ourselves in because of the inventions of RADAR and SONAR developed during the early days of the war.

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Let us not forget the considerable military advantage we found ourselves in because of the inventions of RADAR and SONAR developed during the early days of the war.

-- The code breakers that broke the Japanese purple Code with the test fake message about the faulty fresh water condensers- that ID'd Midway-- and the intact capture of a U-Boat in the North Sea and the Enigma code book the british found intact in the Captain's safe- the British were reading the Nazis' messages and the Germans were unaware of that- they thought the U-Boat went down with the crew-- Lucky breaks--