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They did indeed. I recently read Luftwaffe Special Weapons 1942-1945 by Robert Forsythe. Plenty in there about the variations on "Schrage Musik" and the like.

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As installed on the JU-88.

Post 24588 of this thread shows the aftereffects of an attack using the technology. shown in CV32's entry.
 
Bubba Yugga said:
RRCo. is not alone, Dan.
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I don't doubt that for a moment. The response, though, seems to outweigh the stimulus by about a thousand percent. We were having a nice chat about an admittedly funny-looking, if effective and well-engineered aircraft and suddenly there's an interpersonal explosion that brings up both anti-Americanism and wannabe-Americanism, and then goes on to question who among us has a sense of Canadian identity. All that from a few comments that seem innocent enough.

The Arrow was a beauty, as was the Avro Jetliner. Hell, the DH Beaver is a looker. Calling the Dynavert an ugly duckling doesn't constitute anti-Canadian slander anymore than referring to John A. MacDonald as a mean drunk.

I don't think anyone said anything out of line, but perhaps I'm not as sensitive to the issue. I think it's safe to say no one intended any offense. Anyway, pictures:

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The aformentioned Beaver was an excellent export success, operated by gobs of civvie operators as well as several militaries.

Britain:

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US Army:

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USAF:

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Indonesian Army:

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Columbian AF:

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RNAF:

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South Korean AF:

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...and twenty seven other militaries, including, of all things, Cuba.
 
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The smoothest landing I ever experienced on a fixed wing aircraft was a Beaver on floats landing at 'Summer Beaver' (Nibinamik Lake)
 
One of my most memorable visuals from my time with 400 City of Toronto Squadron was when, upon returning to home base at CYZD Downsview Toronto, was leaning from the back of one of our Otters and looking out the windshield, watching as that big number 13 on the runway just sat there, slowly getting bigger, then slipping from view as the aircraft flared into a gentle chirp on the pavement.
Turnoff on the taxiway just a couple hundred feet hence...
 
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I'm surprised by the scale of the battlefield. Maybe 10 km from Auchonvilliers to Miraumont. Considering the losses there, I have to think most of the soil is bones.

Terribly bloody sad. Have a look at it on Google Street View. Very peaceful now. Little villages, quiet country roads, wee farms. And a hundred years ago it was hell on Earth, churned to sh!t and knee deep in mud and things best left unrecognized.

The Earth heals, but the losses at a place like that. Can't imagine living there. Doesn't matter if one believes in ghosts. There'd be a feel to the place that would be hard to ignore.
 
weimajack said:
Do you think they return them after the war? AH! AH! AH!
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for that reason providing weapons to them was apparently a concern voiced by Degaulle who recognized that a large component of the FFI (Maquis) were 'FTP' .. communist party members. I had a school teacher in the UK who could be counted on to forget our French lessons if we could get him talking about his WWll experience; he had been sent to work with the French 'underground' during the war and mentioned that a lot of them were criminals who had been released from various prisons when the Germans invaded.
 
AP said:
for that reason providing weapons to them was apparently a concern voiced by Degaulle who recognized that a large component of the FFI (Maquis) were 'FTP' .. communist party members. I had a school teacher in the UK who could be counted on to forget our French lessons if we could get him talking about his WWll experience; he had been sent to work with the French 'underground' during the war and mentioned that a lot of them were criminals who had been released from various prisons when the Germans invaded.
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That's kind of the impression I get when I read accounts of the glorious french freedom fighters. Various political and criminal factions just as interested in selling each other and the allies out as fighting (or collaborating) with the Germans to get a foothold on whatever was going to happen after the war.
 
There's a hell of a film about that. The Sorrow and the Pity answers the old question - "Daddy, mommy, what did you do during the war?" Some of the answers are unexpected. The French were hardly unified in their opposition to the Germans. Some used it as an opportunity to make some money, or get rid of troublesome business competitors, or to generally be the horrible bastards they always were, but with official blessing and the force of "law" behind them.


This isn't much talked about now, but there's been time enough to figure it out and sort out myth from fact.

Some things can't be forgotten, though, or excused.

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This in response to Maquis pestering.
 
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