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I used to talk with a range lizard who had been a kid in Denmark during the war. He told me a story about how a special train carrying Hitler and Rommel had stopped in his town and that he had seen Hitler giving Rommel a blast of $hit. I asked him how he knew what they were saying because trains are fairly sound-proof. He said that he was able to lip read in German.;)

He had used an M1 Garand during his Danish military service and was amazed at the itty-bitty groups that I was shooting with mine. I told him that was because of using handloads and the absence of a range NCO screaming in my ear.:rolleyes:
 
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I used to talk with a range lizard who had been a kid in Denmark during the war. He told me a story about how a special train carrying Hitler and Rommel had stopped in his town and that he had seen Hitler giving Rommel a blast of $hit. I asked him how he knew what they were saying because trains are fairly sound-proof. He said that he was able to lip read in German.;)

He had used an M1 Garand during his Danish military service and was amazed at the itty-bitty groups that I was shooting with mine. I told him that was because of using handloads and the absence of a range NCO screaming in my ear.:rolleyes:
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Think I'd take the Hitler, Rommel story with a grain of salt. :) During my very short milita membership, we had a former Danish Home guard guy there. He told us all about his experience with the Garand, didn't know they had a Home Guard or used the Garand, before then.

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Post 17100 - Danish Resistance upgrading - would have been taken right at the Surrender.

Up until then, Jerry was looking VERY hard for Underground members but not really catching many.

According to my Ex's father, Henning Jensen, who was head of Parachute Operations in Silkeborg District, a LOT of British and American equipment came in, small lots in Lizzies, larger lots containerised and paradropped. This included some Lee-Enfields, but the popular weapons were the Stens and the little M-1 Carbine. Danish auto-repair shops and garages also manufactured a raft of bootleg Stens, once they got their hands on a few real ones to copy, as well as bootleg copies of the German Model 24 grenade. Ammunition for the 9mms was not in short supply because there was lots coming in..... and it was often possible to borrow some from Jerry. Underground members sometimes used the German ranges for training and target practice; sounds dangerous but one 9mm sounds much like another and the ranges were empty much of the time and unguarded.

An indication of the power of the Underground may be gauged from the facts that in the early stages of the Occupation, German soldiers would patrol in the cities as singles and 2-man patrols. By the end of the War they were working in full platoon strength with rounds up the pipe.

Very little generally is taught in this country about the Resistance in Denmark, but perhaps it should be. The Danish Government did nothing, but the Danish PEOPLE and their KING FOUGHT.

One thing which really grated on Mr. Jensen, though, was the fact that the same Government came back into power following the Surrender as was in power when the AT guns were removed from the Borders and the AA removed from the airfields, 5 years previously....... and that Government's first order to the Underground was to hand in all its weapons!
 
Danes resisting. Interesting melange of hardware.

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The gent on the left - the CO, I'm guessing, as he has the pistol - appears to be short one hand, or is it just an ill-fitted suitcoat? Name that pistol.

More info ont he Danish resistance here.
 
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There is book I read called "The Churchill Gang". It is about a group of Danish schoolboy's who organized themselves into a resistance group in German occupied Denmark.

It was a pretty good read for anyone interested in Danish resistance. I won't get into any of it, as to not spoil anything for anybody who wants to read it. If you can't find it, I don't know about other provinces but here in Ontario, Public Libraries have an inter library lend policy, all you have to do is tell the librarian the title of the book and if they don't have it she will borrow it from another library for you. I use it all the time.
 
Today I leaned Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino) was a Gunner’s Mate 1st Class with the US Navy for ten years - 1935-45.

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He served one term in the Navy after high school, then reenlisted after Pearl Harbor. Before the war he served aboard the USS Lamberton (DD-119).

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The Lamberton had an interesting history. She was an old boat when WW2 started, dating back to the war before. This from Wikipedia:

After shakedown in the Caribbean Sea, Lamberton joined the Atlantic Fleet for maneuvers off the Azores in early 1919. Reassigned to the newly formed Pacific Fleet, the destroyer departed Hampton Roads on 19 July and arrived at San Diego on 7 August.

Based at San Diego, Lamberton operated along the west coast from August 1919 until June 1922. She participated in training maneuvers and performed experiments to develop superior naval tactics. The destroyer decommissioned at San Diego on 30 June 1922.

Lamberton recommissioned 15 November 1930, Lieutenant Commander S. N. Moore in command. Operating along the west coast, she performed training exercises for nearly two years. She was reclassified AG-21 on 16 April 1932 and converted to a target-towing ship. From 1933 until 1940 she operated out of San Diego towing targets for surface ships, submarines, and aircraft, a role which paid dividends during World War II. She also engaged in experimental minesweeping exercises off the west coast and was reclassified DMS-2 on 19 November 1940.

After arriving at Pearl Harbor on 11 September 1941, Lamberton resumed target towing and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) screening operations in the Hawaiian Islands. On 7 December 1941, she was escorting the cruiser Minneapolis to Oahu when the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor. Following the attack, she returned to port to sweep the harbor. For the next seven months she remained on offshore patrol in the Hawaiian Islands.

Departing Pearl Harbor on 11 July 1942, Lamberton steamed north, arriving at Kodiak, Alaska seven days later. The high-speed minesweeper performed patrol and escort duty in the frigid North Pacific during the Aleutian campaign. In mid-May 1943, she escorted the task group which brought reinforcements for the second landing at Massacre Bay, Attu. Lamberton continued patrol operations until late June when she sailed for Kuluk Bay.

The high-speed minesweeper then steamed to San Diego, arriving there on 23 July. For the rest of the war, she performed target-towing operations off the west coast and out of Pearl Harbor. Lamberton was reclassified AG-21 on 5 June 1945, and, following the Japanese surrender, she operated out of San Diego as an auxiliary.

On 9 October 1945 Lamberton was one of 266 vessels damaged by Typhoon Louise when it struck Okinawa. Of these, 222 were run aground, including Lamberton. She was later refloated and returned to duty. Curiously, her listing in the Naval History and Heritage Command's history of that event still shows her designated as DMS-2.

She was decommissioned at Bremerton, Washington on 13 December 1946 and was sold on 9 May 1947 to National Metal and Steel Corporation, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California for scrapping.
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During the war, Borgnine served in the Atlantic aboard USS Sylph...

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...a converted yacht devoted to antisubmarine-warfare activities throughout the war. Operating first out of Tompkinsville (New York) and then New London (Connecticut), the Sylph patrolled for German U-boats during 1942, a devastating year for American merchantmen off the East Coast. In the fall of 1943 she was assigned to Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and a year later to the naval base at Port Everglades, Florida, along with her unit, the surface division of the Atlantic Fleet's Antisubmarine Development Detachment. She was used mainly for training sonarmen and testing and researching new sound and antisubmarine equipment. The Sylph and her unit contributed greatly to the U.S. victory over Germany's "gray wolves."
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A Hall effect sensor is a device that is used to measure the magnitude of a magnetic field. Its output voltage is directly proportional to the magnetic field strength through it.
Hall effect sensors are used for proximity sensing, positioning, speed detection, and current sensing applications. (Used in linear motors so driver can efficiently move the wire coils of the stator in relation to the permanent magnets.)

Extremely low frequency

1982 aerial view of the Clam Lake, Wisconsin ELF facility. 46.084594, -90.916887
Electromagnetic waves in the ELF and SLF frequency ranges (3–300 Hz) can penetrate seawater to depths of hundreds of meters, allowing signals to be sent to submarines at their operating depths. Building an ELF transmitter is a formidable challenge, as they have to work at incredibly long wavelengths: The U.S. Navy's system, Seafarer, which was a variant of a larger system proposed under codename Project Sanguine,[1] operated at 76 hertz,[2] the Soviet/Russian system (called ZEVS) at 82 hertz.[3] The latter corresponds to a wavelength of 3,656.0 kilometres. That is more than a quarter of the Earth's diameter. Obviously, the usual half-wavelength dipole antenna cannot be feasibly constructed.

Seawolf was the same basic "double hull" twin-screw submarine design as her predecessor USS Nautilus (SSN-571), but her propulsion system was more technologically advanced. The Submarine Intermediate Reactor (SIR) nuclear plant was designed by General Electric's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and prototyped in West Milton, New York. The prototype plant was eventually designated S1G and Seawolf 's plant as S2G. Carrying a liquid sodium, epithermal, superheated, more powerful reactor and steam powerplant, rather than Nautilus' alternative light water reactor and saturated steam plant, reduced the size of the machinery in the engineering spaces nearly 40%. Her liquid-sodium cooled epithermal reactor was more thermally efficient than a light water-cooled system, quieter, and presumably better system, but posed several additional safety hazards for the ship and crew over already hazardous submarine and naval warcraft conditions

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One of the several thousand "known points of failure" on the 1980-85 VW Vanagon is the dreaded Hall Sensor. G'wan and ask me how I know. :) The one VW used is a bit smaller than the USN version, but doubtless a lot more primitive and troublesome.

Maybe it worked on subs, but it doesn't work for beans on a Volkswagen flat four.

Anyhoo, pics. The USN, in its wisdom, has taken your lovely wee A4 and kitted it out to throw nukes.

Here's what one of the Golden Age's aesthetic masterpieces looked like with a great dirty turd of a Mk7 nuke slung beneath her sleek hull:

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It's like seeing Cindy Crawford do Sheisse####. Just flat out objectionable. But hey, there's also the whole pilot survivability issue.

No one asked you if this was a good idea. No one's asking you now. But in an effort to give you some sense that you, or your stupid human eye holes at least have some value, they've installed these:

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The old-blanket-over-the-head trick. "This isn't happening! THIS ISN'T HAPPENING!"

It did what it said on the box, but was discontinued after additional testing discovered they had a tendency to jam in the deployed position, which would complicate carrier landings to an uncomfortable degree.
 
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