- 1. Re: Rootes overengineering: bomb-proof building (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 23:48:10 EDT
- That is most interesting to me as I am a Submarine buff, and I am well aware of the reinforced concrete bomb-proof submarine pens that housed Grand Admiral Donitz's submarines at Lorient and Biscay.
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- 2. Re: Rootes overengineering: bomb-proof building (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 00:06:09 -0400
- Rootes itself had little to do with this -- it was a dictate of the British government, which required bomb-proofed portions of most factories deemed vital to the war effort. This program also includ
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- 3. Re: Rootes overengineering: bomb-proof building (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 02:07:28 EDT
- I am well aware of the shadow factory scheme: are you saying by dictate, Rootes built a secure site without anything of importance to store in it? I was curious about what was (if anything) was deem
- /html/tigers/2002-05/msg00061.html (7,269 bytes)
- 4. Re: Rootes overengineering: bomb-proof building (score: 1)
- Author: SFordRB@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 13:14:18 EDT
- If anyone is interested, a book by Anthony, "Bodyguard of Lies," can provide additional info as to the efforts Great Britain went to deceive. Moonstone
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- 5. Re: Rootes overengineering: bomb-proof building (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:54:40 EDT
- Moonstone, et al. Another book about Great Britain's efforts is "Deception In World War II" by Charles Cruickshank. It is full of pictures of plywood Spitfire and Tomahawk fighter planes, inflatable
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