Dozens of bombers had limped home in the preceeding
months with damage that clearly indicated the angle of the attack - the
Brits
had figured it out

I'd be glad of a source. Some damaged British bombers returned, but few did
if
they were attacked by SM.

I'd have to go back through a year of posts on the RAF forum and over at the 12
O'clock High forum to find it, but I will try. SM was a great weapon system
and the tactics evolved to use it made attacks far more deadly than the usual,
"slug it out with the MU and tail turret" attack. Funny that the WWII Germans
got credit for inventing slant weapons when so many other folks used it in the
Great War.

v/r
Gordon
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USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.