If any picture ever summed a player upā¦
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That won Limerick the All Ireland. Cork collapsed after that nasty piece of goading.
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Heās from Rathluric
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Pilots of the japanese kamikaze unit during ww2 had a better chance of survival than german u-boat crews
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U-boat submariners had a 75% casualty rate
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Would a kamikaze not be at 100%?
Youd want to be a pretty shite kamikaze pilot to survive
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They were all completely shite pilots, some of them had never even flown a plane before!
Planes werenāt that reliable and a lot of them simply broke down and crashed or crashed at take off. Some lads survived because of that
Unbelievably I just read there that most of the planes had two pilots just incase one backed down.
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A Mayo one would
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Nope, I think it was around 30%. 10000 āvolunteeredā 2800 died
Unlikely as it may seem, a number of Japanese kamikaze pilots did survive the war. All had been instructed to return to base if their planes developed a fault on the way to their targets.
Sphagnum moss from the Irish coast was used to treat soldiers in WW1. Peat moss was used as surgical dressing after cotton became harder to find, as it was highly absorbent and naturally sterile.
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Paddy McCarthy of Tipperary was the first coach of Boca Juniors. I knew the jersey scheme came from the Swedish flag but I didnāt know about McCarthy.
Fuck the bow tie, who wants to look like Buddy Holly.
Show me how to tie a cravat (or tie)ā¦ā¦
Tallaght is a very windy place. Much more so than the rest of our capital city.
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Jurgen Klinsmann has a son playing with LA Galaxy.
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Jugend Klinsmann
Saw this on Quora
About 9000 German u-boat crew members survived the war. The Kriegsmarine lost 793 submarines, with about 28,000 crew members lost. 75% of u-boat crew membership did not survive the war. They had the highest casualty rate of any branch of the German military.
U-boats were successful very early in the war, but allied countermeasures steadily improved. American anti-submarine aircraft operating from Newfoundland, Greenland, and Iceland were able to provide air cover for convoys across the entire North Atlantic. Codebreaking, radio triangularization, radar, and innovations such as the Leigh Light had a devastating cumulative effect.
The Leigh Light
prepared by Emmanuel Gustin
One early problem with ASV Mk.II was that its minimal range was too long. To make a successful attack, the crew had to see the submarine. At night, this could be achieved by dropping flares, but this warned the Germans that an attack was imminent.
The Leigh Light was a 22-million candlepower, 24-inch searchlight. It was proposed by Squadron Leader H. de V. Leigh, who sought support from the C-in-C Coastal Command, ACM Sir Frederick Bowhill.
In March 1941 it was tested under a Wellington that had previously been used for magnetic minesweeping, and therefore already had a generator on board. (Later most aircraft would carry a battery pack.) The Leigh light, manufactured by Savage & Parsons, was installed in a retractable ādustbinā under the fuselage of the aircraft. A test proved the soundness of the concept.
Left: Squadron leader Humphry de Verde Leigh.
But only by mid-1942 were RAF aircraft equipped with the Leigh light. The reason was that the Air Ministry favoured the Turbinlite, a less effective searchlight which had been developed (and failed) as an aid for the interception of bombers. Savage & Parsons continued the work anyway, and finally the Leigh Light was adopted. There was a wide variation of installations, under the fuselage or wings of aircraft.
By June 1942, aircraft equipped with ASV radar and the Leigh light were operating over the Bay of Biscay. In the first five months of the year patrols over the Bay had not sunk a single U-boat (and six aircraft were lost), but now Coastal Command had an effective weapon. The night attacks did not give any warning to the submarine.
A Wellington aircraft with the Leigh ādustbinā under the fuselage.
From August 1942 onwards the U-boats preferred surfacing at day, when they could at least see their attackers coming. But this too increased their vulnerability. Shipping losses from U-boats dropped from 600,000 tons per month to 200,000 tons.
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Whatever became of U boat captain Karl Spindler?