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    Light reading tonight

    From my shelves a fairly comprehensive analysis of Germanyicon's secret WWII weapons programs some that came to be and others that were a bit of a pipe dream.
    They had early trials with a submerged launching system for the (A4) or V2 rocket with several containers made up but it was shelved as the Atlantic ocean would wreck the whole show.

    They were on track to build an ICBM with around a 2,000-3,000 ml range but again events and dabbling squashed further development.
    The jets are in there as well as the rockets the Natter was a weird one 49,500 ft in a minute then glide back down with rocketing the B-17's, again a folly not pursued past testing.
    I have another book that details a flying saucer they built 40,000 ft in 3 minutes again it was said the Russians captured all the stuff.
    Thankfully the chook had a wobbly head and allot of worthy projects got lost by jealousy and plain old ineptness.

    My wife and I (PPV) watched a movie the other day and I thoroughly recommend it it is called;
    "And The Catcher Was A Spy" based on a true story about an OSS recruited in WWII you can also look him up on Wiki one very smart fella, Morris "Moe" Berg.
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    That Moe Berg show... It's on Amazon Prime, but I've been waiting for it to be free. Sometimes they charge, then they're free, then they're PPV again. Vicious cycle!

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    I've been trying to watch that Tom Hanks Destroyer movie but one station has the rights to it and you cannot get it on any other platform from what I have seen on you tube it looks like a good movie anyone watched it!

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    It's on Amazon Prime. It is good but I don't recall the details as I watched it about two years ago during the lockdown.

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    Apple TV owns Tom Hanks Greyhound and doesn't appear to be willing to release it on DVD or BluRay. I've watched it several times and prefer it over the book it was based upon, The Good Shepherd, by C.S. Forester. The Forester book was a bit dark for me. Hanks rewrote the theme a little to give it more uplift, and I appreciate that. The filmmakers were dogged in their attempts to keep it technically correct, only allowing a couple of twists in for plot development. The shot quite a bit of the film aboard the USS Kidd DD661, now a museum ship in Baton Rouge and named after RADM Issac Kidd, who died on the bridge of the Arizona at Pearl Harbor. For the Britishicon ships they used a period British Flower-Class corvette museum ship that they scanned to make digital models and they went aboard a Canadianicon frigate at sea to shoot sea shots. They went as far as to be taught every knob and indicator on the Kidd's bridge and in the radar shack and used the gear properly in the tactical scenes. They used air and pyrotechnics to make the cannons work properly. They depicted proper anti-sub tactics, and in several scenes you can see Hanks' character doing mental geometry and counting in his head like a real DD captain would have.

    It is rewarding for students of Naval tactics of the period.

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    My bad. It is Apple, not Amazon. I have all of them and get them mixed up.

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