Air units in aerial mining of Suez 1941

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Air units in aerial mining of Suez 1941

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Post by Dili » 18 Apr 2016, 14:33

Based on Rhodes.
Candidates i only have KG 26 II or parts of it and KG4 I or parts.

Also about the aircraft employed some say He-111P but that seems a too old version.

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Post by Brady » 06 Oct 2019, 22:13

?
Punt

I have read about this in Shores, but I heard there was a thread on this, and this is all I found ?


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Post by Dili » 08 Oct 2019, 17:43

What do you mean?

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Post by Brady » 08 Oct 2019, 19:02

Dili wrote:
08 Oct 2019, 17:43
What do you mean?
DrG mentioned there was thread about the Aerial Mining of the Suez, but when I searched for it all I could find was this

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Post by Dili » 08 Oct 2019, 19:23

Ok.

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Post by Dili » 08 Oct 2019, 21:06

i am even there . It was at this time that Wellington DWI were sent to Egypt.

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Post by Brady » 08 Oct 2019, 21:09

Thank you for the link

Those are the Magnetic minesweepers, similar to the JU 52’s right ?

The ones with the gigantic rings

Edit, yes... It would seam, I recalled reading about them before but did not know they were sent to the Med

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Its interesting that despite there apparent presence it took them so long to clear the area

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Post by Dili » 08 Oct 2019, 21:21

Yes. I have 3 DWI arriving in February

Both side had them in Med, Ju 52 fro Germans, Italians had one S.81 prototype in 1943, but used modified merchants and motorfishers. Magnetic mines were an important aspect of naval war because initially no one had a counter measure available.

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Post by Brady » 08 Oct 2019, 21:31

Dili wrote:
08 Oct 2019, 21:21
Yes. I have 3 DWI arriving in February

Both side had them in Med, Ju 52 fro Germans, Italians had one S.81 prototype in 1943, but used modified merchants and motorfishers. Magnetic mines were an important aspect of naval war because initially no one had a counter measure available.
One thing I am totally unclear on is if the Italians laid magnetic mines with aircraft, either there own, or German mines

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Post by Dili » 08 Oct 2019, 21:34

I don't know of any aerial mining by Regia Aeronautica. They only had a 500kg bomb with a timer to be dropped in ports.

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Post by Brady » 08 Oct 2019, 23:22

Dili wrote:
08 Oct 2019, 21:34
I don't know of any aerial mining by Regia Aeronautica. They only had a 500kg bomb with a timer to be dropped in ports.
K, I think you mentioned before they made little use of the 800kg bomb ?

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Post by Dili » 09 Oct 2019, 13:35

Yes

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