From the October 7, 2010, Listverse.
10. X-CLASS MIDGET SUBMARINES-- a 4-man Royal Navy midget sub towed by a mother ship.
9. V-3 SUPER GUN-- A Hitler vengeance weapon to strike back at London, capable of firing a 1310 pound shell 100 miles with a 460-foot long barrel.
SONDERKOMMANDO "ELBE"-- A stripped down (of weapons and armor) ME-109 plane designed to attack bombers. They were to dive on the tails of bombers and destroy them. The pilot was then to parachute out. In the first attack of 120 of these, only 15 pilots returned, but they destroyed 17 B-17s and 5 P-51s. Kind of a version of the Japanese kamikaze.
That's One Big Gun! --GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Top Ten Bizarre Weapons of World War II-- Part 1
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