On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:49:36 +0100 someone who may be "Jim Hawkins"
wrote this:-

Interesting data on WW2 German bombs he-
http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/Bomb-Fuzes...00000001177383

Thanks.

The only thing I would add is to the entry, "23 rd November 1939 Lt
Cmdr Ouvery recovers first magnetic mine at Shoeburyness,and
successfuly defuzes it."

The Germans had delayed laying their "secret weapon" for some weeks
because they were worried that its secrets would eventually be
revealed to the British. When the Royal Navy examined this "secret
weapon", after extracting it from the mine, they were mildly amused.
The method of operation was similar to the fuze the RN had designed
in the First World War. Because of its deficiencies they had soon
abandoned the method, ISTR before the end of the First World War.





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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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