(JDupre5762) wrote:
The Army Sally bombers that participated in
the final attacks on Bataan at
the
end of March bombed from "9,600 yards" altitude
and used a variety of bombs
ranging from 50kg "daisy cutters" to 250kg
demolition bombs, according to
these
debriefs, which consist of hundreds of pages
of transcripts and
documents.
Hard to get decent accuracy from that altitude,
so the US AAA must have been
giving them fits.

Any confirmation of the story that a supply
of proximity fuse AA shells was
brought to Corregidor by submarine and then
hoarded until the Japanese planes
presented a nearly perfect target?

John Dupre'
The 3-inch ammo brought to Correigdor from Hawaii by USS Trout wasn't proximity
fused, but a modern 3-inch ammo that was from a supply headed for Manila
but the ship only made it as far as Hawaii when war began. It worked a lot
better than the stuff they had been shooting, but the rounds weren't Proximity
shells.

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