Escuadrilla Azul
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- Feb 27, 2020
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Thanks, never heard about that eitherFor the British the time it took to work out the fact that the Germans were using guns that pointed in a different direction than the aircraft was flying is puzzling because not only did the British use upward firing guns in WW I as A. G. Williams has said, but the British had built a number of different fighters in the late 1920s using the 37mm COW gun.
See the 37mm COW gun in Google for pictures of the gun and several fignters.
HiThanks, never heard about that either
It was a rather forgotten idea that had to be rediscovered by german and japanese aviators.
Even the british who where on the other side of the gun probably had no real idea what happended to their bombers until late in the war when some bombers survived with strange bullet paths through the aircraft's structure and after getting hand on a such-equipped aircraft
HiNot sure I agree that it was a "forgotten idea." The Boulton Paul Defiant, which was designed as a bomber-killer, could easily have elevated its guns to rake the underside of a bomber.
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IIRC the RAF also experimented with a battery of upwards-firing guns in the upper fuselage of a Douglas A-20, in the area where the upper hinged hatch is located (open hatch is shown in the image below). AFAIK the installation was never used operationally.
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Hi
The above mentioned gun system fitted to RAF Havoc BD126 is illustrated in Tim Mason's ''The Secret Years, Flight Testing at Boscombe Down 1939-1945', Hikoki, 1998:
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Mike
Not sure I agree that it was a "forgotten idea." The Boulton Paul Defiant, which was designed as a bomber-killer, could easily have elevated its guns to rake the underside of a bomber.
[...] the continual and persistent night attacks by the B-17s in May, 1942 [...]
Truly puzzling.For the British the time it took to work out the fact that the Germans were using guns that pointed in a different direction than the aircraft was flying is puzzling because not only did the British use upward firing guns in WW I as A. G. Williams has said, but the British had built a number of different fighters in the late 1920s using the 37mm COW gun.
See the 37mm COW gun in Google for pictures of the gun and several fignters.
Japanese thought the B-17s flew from Australia.Where were these, Shin?
Lastly, while a lot of the time it took to figure out what was happening to the missing bombers was blamed on the lack of a surviving tail gunner to debrief, months before the formal deployment of schrage muzik A CAPTURED GERMAN MECHANIC HAD REVEALED ITS EXISTENCE DURING AN INTERROGATION!!No one was listening.
I'm searching for the link, but, the information about the POW and the "decoy" shells were in an extensive write up of Arthur Harris' memoirs and meetings people remember with him.That's very interesting. Have some link to share?
Japanese thought the B-17s flew from Australia.
I beleive Shinpachi said Rabaul.Attacking where?
Sorry, I should have been more clear.