Screech bombs

Arturs · Post by **Arturs** » Sat Oct 05, 2002 5:30 pm

Did Germany use screech bombs in Latvia during 1941-1945? Thanks.

Ostfront · Post by **Ostfront** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 4:43 pm

Please clarify but what you mean by screech bombs?

Regards,

Toomas

Arturs · Post by **Arturs** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 8:25 pm

By screech bombs, I mean small bombs with a hole in the front that made a loud screeching sound on the way down.

joscha · Post by **joscha** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 9:17 pm

Are you talking about the dive-bomber bombs? They did'nt have a hole in the front (how would that have worled???), but had hard-paper whistles - they looked like small organ pipes - attached to the stabilizer fins.

Made a hell of a racket; scary - you better believe it! Joscha

Arturs · Post by **Arturs** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 9:35 am

So Germany did use these?

Christoph Awender · Post by **Christoph Awender** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 9:51 am

Arturs!

As Joscha said it was a device mounted at the landing-gear of the early Ju-87 Stuka dive-bombers.
This was the standard dive bomber of the german Luftwaffe in the early years and yes it was used in Russia but not until 1945.

Christoph

charlie don't surf · Post by **charlie don't surf** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 10:01 am

It's interesting that they used these propellers just to frightening the soldiers on the ground.

regards

Arturs · Post by **Arturs** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 10:09 am

I guess I'm not thinking of the same thing. These were about 18-24 inches long, narrow, and had a hole punched through the middle. Had 4 fins, whistled all the way down, and sometimes they were duds. Used in the Baltics in early years of the war. I was a child, and they scared the heck out of me.

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