gadge
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Post by gadge on Jun 13, 2010 18:17:44 GMT -5
Cheers!
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CptJericho
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"We got to stop the Germans from getting the secret weapons!"
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Post by CptJericho on Jun 14, 2010 2:12:33 GMT -5
That video needs to be in the funny video section!
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imagerman
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my 3 usaully equiped guns
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Post by imagerman on Jun 14, 2010 18:59:19 GMT -5
The germans tried to make a sound gun a vortex gun and a air gun look it up and the americans tried to make a flying jeep and pigeon guided missiles
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Post by the2ndranger on Jun 16, 2010 16:57:20 GMT -5
My favorite wierd weapons are the german Vril, Heneabu, And of corse Die Gloke
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Post by volkssturm on Jun 16, 2010 17:22:54 GMT -5
There's a book that came out in the 1960's, "Of Spies and Stratagems". The author was a scientist for the OSS during the war, and published the book when his 25 year secrecy agreement expired. Interesting stuff. They would try about anything that had a faintest chance of working.
Among others: the cat guided bomb. A major problem for the Allies was sinking the German battleship "Tirpitz", the sister ship to the "Bismarck" The Germans kept it in Norwegian fjords, where it was hard to get at, and ran out periodically to threaten Russia convoys. Follow the logic here: cats land on their feet cats hate water. Rig up a guidable bomb with a cat in the nose, drop it over the fjord. The cat will guide it towards dry land or the battleship, whichever is closer. They actually experimented with dropping cats and discovered that if they went over 50 feet or so the cat usually blacked out.
And probably the least effective (in terms of actual damage) but most satisfying OSS sabotage weapon: Studying the Japanese, they discovered that Japanese men are very proud of their manhood and have no shyness about whipping it out and taking a leak in public. But they're very shy about bowel movements, to the point where Japanese soldiers would take considerable risks in combat to relieve themselves in private. So the OSS developed a small tube containing a liquid that smelled like poop. These were smuggled into occupied China and given to children, who snuck up behind Japanese officers and squirted the tubes on the seats of their pants, causing great loss of face.
Interesting book. Worth reading if you can find a copy.
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Post by CharleyNovember on Jun 16, 2010 20:42:06 GMT -5
I hate cats. I'm a dog person and I can't help a little giggle..then I feel bad then I giggle again.
From what I hear they may want to reevaluate that sense of pride...
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Post by hairy apple on Jun 16, 2010 22:10:05 GMT -5
I hate cats. I'm a dog person and I can't help a little giggle..then I feel bad then I giggle again. Mostly I just laugh at that. I do serously hate cats. They thought of putting a cat in a bomb and dropping it on a battleship is just funny as hell. From what I hear they may want to reevaluate that sense of pride... I had heard that we also left huge oversized condoms for the Japanese to find to make them think we had huge... er... manhoods.
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gadge
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Post by gadge on Jun 17, 2010 6:09:21 GMT -5
Just a final bit on the old Home Guard topic Here you go pics of my home towns home guard (my grandads old unit in Staffordshire). relatively well equipped to be honest, BARS, Stens and No4 rifles.
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