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RE: The only submersible aircraft carrier ever built; was the biggest submarine in WWII!
This sub design was impressive, kind of an underwater catamaran, and if they had been able to make them sooner; they could have hurt us a great deal.
We were able to choke their economy down enough to slow the construction, to the point these dangerous super weapons would be a no show in WWII.
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Right. Good thing.
We barely beat the Nazis to the bomb too, from what I've read...
Same thing actually, they had the theory, but not the production ability. We built an entire city to extract the Uranium we needed. Some of the Uranium in the little boy bomb, was from a captured German sub, at the end of the war. We ran it through the same plant city.
:OI saw the movie about our commando raid on their heavy water plant in Norway. Quite a good story....
Yes they sunk the ferry with some of their own people to stop that water! Sadly, they were killed in vain, because the Nazi did not have the ability to use the heavy water to make a bomb. The best they could have done was to make a fission reactor with this water.
:DYes. A very interesting study in ethics.
In hind sight only, we knew they were working on it, and had NO idea how far they were on the project. They could NOT take the risk, because if they managed it first, they could have won the war!
:OActually, I think we knew, pretty well, everything they were up to. The enigma had been busted and I am sure there were moles.
Spies were busy, and we did have enough of a read on Enigma for troop movements, but when we finally found the reactor they were building, we were shocked at how little they had achieved, partly because they lacked this heavy water. The spies and the Enigma were the very reason we knew of this program in the first place....
The Germans had not prioritized new super weapons because they were so sure they would win with conventional weapons, that they waited too long before funding these new ideas. A Very poor performance on the atomic bomb, but they were working on a long range bomber, that could reach NYC, with that atomic payload....
:'(