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The Nazis used remote control/unmanned airplanes filled with explosives to attack the allies under the Mistel Program can you relate this to REMOTE CONTROLLED B-737's with LARGE shaped charges in the nose used against the WTC and a REMOTE CONTROLLED A-3 Skywarrior with a LARGE shaped charge in the nose used against the Pentagon ?..I sure can Tim White,Viet Nam Vet(USAF) Concerned Citizen,Researcher, ___________________________________________ |
Good findMistel - Remote bomb with nose modded?Where have I seen that lately? - 9/11 flash when airplanes hit tower?Hmmm…Seems like von Braun and his Paperclip colleagues did their part…Description:
The Mistel series of composite aircraft are without a doubt one of the strangest concepts to achieve operational status with the Luftwaffe. The original concept was proposed to the RLM in 1941 by Siegfried Holzbauer, A Junkers test pilot. His idea was to make use of "tired" Ju 88 airframes by packing them with explosives, fly them near a target and crash them into the target after the fighter had released itself. The fighter pilot would control the "missle" after release by remote control.The first conversion flew in July 1943 and proved successful enough for the RLM to approved a further 15 conversions, with the code name Beethoven. Tests with Ju 88 fuselage sized hollow charge warheads against the French battleship Oran proved to be successful and an eventual thickness of 60 feet of reinforced concrete was breached in further tests. Over 250 Mistels of various combinations were built, but like all the Third Reichs super weapons, they proved too little too late.Warhead: - Source: Wikipedia
The definitive Mistel warhead was a shaped charge around a core of copper or aluminium. When detonated, the explosion would create a penetrator made of the core of the above-mentioned copper or aluminium. The metal would then "behave" like a liquid (and not, as often falsely reported, liquefy), capable of penetrating up to 7 metres (24 feet) of steel armour. It was anticipated that this would be able to "drill" straight through an enemy warship.Some 250 Mistels of various combinations were built during the war, but met with limited success. They were first flown in combat against the Allied invasion fleet during Battle of Normandy, targeting the British-held harbour at Courseulles-sur-Mer.While Mistel pilots claimed hits, none of these can be correlated in Allied records, and they may have been made against the hulk of the old French battleship Courbet, which had been included as a component of the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches and specially dressed up as a decoy by the Allies. Serious blast and shrapnel damage from a near miss was also suffered by HMS Nith, a floating headquarters, on 21 June. There were 9 killed and 26 wounded and the Nith was towed to back to England for repairs.A second opportunity to use the Mistels, in Scapa Flow in 1944 was abandoned after the loss of the Tirpitz assured local air superiority for the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers.As part of Operation Iron Hammer in late 1943 and early 1944, Mistels were selected to carry out key raids against Soviet weapons manufacturing facilities -- specifically, electricity-generating plants around Moscow and Gorky. These plants were known to be poorly-defended by the Soviets and irreplaceable. However, before the plan could be implemented, the Red Army was already pushing into Germany itself and it was decided to use the Mistels against their bridgehead at Kuestrin instead. On April 12, 1945, Mistels attacked the bridges being built there, but the damage caused was negligible and delayed the Soviet forces for only a day or two. Subsequent Mistelattacks on other bridges being thrown across the Oder were similarly ineffective.
Tim,First of all please understand that all of my photographs are copyrighted and registered with the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress and they are available for use by licensing. What are your intended uses of them?You may use them for PERSONAL USE ONLY however they may not be distributed in any form or media without explicit permission from me.As far as others of Darrell, I have two of him in his shop but they are mostly in the background at a shop bench or piece of equipment in his Vintage Aircraft facility in Fort Collin, Colorado. They were taken May 2, 1991 for inclusion in a local magazine "One Day in Fort Collins," a parallel to the "Day In The Life" series. All are black and white.Don Eddy(USAF SS, Turkey, pre-Viet Nam)On Sep 8, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Tim White wrote:Don,You didn't send me this photo of Skurich..I pulled it off the 'net because I Googled Skurich.Are you able to send me more photos of him?Tim White,Viet Nam Vet(USAF)
This is the photo of Darrell Skurich discussed in the emails from Tim White.
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