Weirdness

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The submarine that took out a train

http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/southern-tier/article294604.ece

A neat little footnote to WWII.

posted by mendip at 7:33 AM

1 Comments:

  • this article is too bare bones. The captian of Barb, "Lucky" Fluckey" wrote a book, "Fire down Below", that is quite good.
    In his account, the boyscouts trying to set the explosive were more like Keystone Cops.
    There was a lot of missteps and they weren't sure it would work because the pressure plate did not seem to be working.

    By Blogger besilarius, at 9:50 PM  

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