Critical about Justin Scott's book "The man who loved the Normandie"

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

This is the writing about the book, what is made by the writer, who is not so well known. "The man who loved the Normandie" is the book about the agents, who fought in the New York, and other was German code-named "Otter" and other was Military Architect. The frame is that super-passenger ship "Normandie" was burned in the harbor of New York, and Agent code-named "Otter" wanted to make the base for midget submarine in the wreck. I sometimes have thought that this "Otter" have mistakenly translated from German world "Seehund", what means "Otter", but the names are normally the thing, what is not translated.


But this is the thing, what makes this book a little bit unbelievable. If that "Otter" wanted to sabotage those ships, what was left from New York to Europe, must this man only use the combat scuba-diving technologies, and put the mines under the ships bottoms. When we are thinking about the thing, that could be useful in those raids, that could be the underwater tank, what would be equipped with the pressure system, that would keep the water out from inside of that device, where those agents would store their equipment like mines, and where they could hide after the missions.

And the hatch to the tank must be bottom because that makes traffic in and out from that diving bell possible. The equipment what those operators would need could be brought by submarines and store in that underwater station. The air could be kept clean by throwing it thru the active carbon filters. That kind of underwater station can be very simple to build. And the reason, why I write about this is that the most advanced things are actually quite simple. When we are thinking about the small size scuba-diving equipment, we do not normally think about one of the most advanced and unique inventions.


That is small size breathing equipment, that is called the "Draeger's lung". The steel cylinder is filled with the rubber ball and to the tube of that thing is installed the active carbon filter, what would help to keep air able to breathe. Inside that system can be the small electric motor, that uses the piston, what helps the ball surge and dwarf. That happens because the steel cylinder is a room for air, and when the piston moves upside down in the cylinder it would cause the breath.


Sometimes there are plannings, that that equipment has been used in tests of PFC (Poly Fluoride Carbonate) breathing system, where the lungs are filled with liquid PFC-chemical. The oxygen can be transformed to that chemical from the water by artificial gills. That system could be used like conventional scuba diving equipment, but it can be installed to the thorax surgically. That thing allows the diver to live under the sea as long he wants.


Of course, this is the very interesting theory, but those men would not need to eat raw fish, because the scuba-diver could use underwater torches for cooking fishes and vegetables at the bottom of the ocean. But who would actually allow putting that kind equipment surgically to the body? Of course to the throat could be put the vent, what allows those men to breathe in the dry land. This writing is only fiction and please don't take it seriously.

There were written some book about this kind of attack in the Second World War

B-17
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http://kimmontaidearvioita.blogspot.com/2018/07/there-were-written-some-book-about-this.html

Kimmo Huosionmaa

When the B-17 accidentally bombarded Oklahoma City or actually Boise City during Exercise in  July 1943, the United States Military afraid that some German or other Axis agents were trying to intercept the United States Air Force Base, and try to steal the B-17 or some other bombers, what could be loaded with bombs or nitroglycerin tanks, that could use an attack against American targets like shipyards. There is no physical evidence that "Abwehr" was trying to make that kind of action, but in the War everything is possible.



There were rumors in the USA and Great Britain, that German Espionage would slip the Luftwaffe aircraft in those countries as the parts, and then they would try to put those pieces together. And after that, there could be even the German bomber squadron in the USA, and that could be made very bad damages because normal people would not be reserved any attention for that kind of threat. In some other rumors were claimed, that the necessary machine parts were slipped in Mexico by German or Japanese ships before the attack against Pearl Harbor.


Somebody wrote a book about this imaginational operation, and in that book, the used aircraft would be Junkers JU-52, and the used weapon was the DFS-230 glider, what would be equipped with propane gas tanks. The glider would be the remote controlled thermobaric bomb, what was pulled by JU-52, what was modified to look the Ford "Tin Goose". The weapon was planned to use against shipyards or the Capitolium Hill, and this book or novel was of course fiction. But it brought my mind the thoughts about, how deadly weapon this kind of mind is?


Also, Stanley Kubrick made the similar idea of the B-52 bomber, what would be used as the giant cruise missile. Or this is how I understood the film, "Dr. Strangelove". And there were many writings where were similar ideas, but the used platform is changing. Sometimes those nuclear weapons are installed in the cars, what was exploded by their fanatic drivers. That kind of nuclear weapons is extremely dangerous because they give the surprise attack against the defense.


The vehicle that is equipped with the nuclear weapon would drive near the command center of military, and then the weapon would be launched. That kind of thing is very dangerous because in many scenarios the war begins with a series of bomb strikes, what is targeted to command systems, like radars and radio stations. Those bombs would put by special forces, what would also eliminate key persons. This is one of the most usual scenarios about crises between superpowers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Trimotor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFS_230

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/the-oklahoma-city-attacked.html

Picture I

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Säähavaintoasema KURT eli Saksan ainoa sotilasoperaatio Pohjois-Amerikassa

Sääasema KURT
Kuva I

150 Watin radiolla varustettu sääasema "KURT"on natsien ainoa sotatoimi Pohjois-Amerikassa, ja se tarkoittaa operaatiota, jonka saksan sääinsitiuutin Dr. Kurt Sonnenmeyer sekä hänen apulaisensa Dr.Walter  Hildebrandt laittoivat toimeen vuonna 1943 U-537:n avulla. He suunnittelivat automaattisen säähavaintoaseman, jonka tämä U-vene sitten vei Pohjois-Kanadaan Labradorin rannalle, ja tuon aseman tarkoitus oli kerätä ja lähettää säätietoja Ranskan Loriantissa sijaitsevalle sukellusveneiden esikunnalle. Vaikka tuo säähavaintoasema olikin periaatteessa melko turhan tuntuinen operaatio, koska siinä vaarannettiin U-vene näennäisesti aivan turhaan, niin kuitenkin operaatio oli GESTAPO:n ideoima operaatio.

Toisten väitteiden mukaan tuo operaatio pantiin toimeen, jotta Hitlerille voitiin kertoa, että Saksalla oli tukikohta Pohjois-Amerikassa, ja siksi tuosta asemasta käytettiin koodinimeä "Kurt Siemens". Tai sitten Abwehr peitteli USA:aan sijoitetun vakoojan henkilöllisyyttä, jonka koodinimi oli "Kurt Siemens". Tarinan mukaan tuo "Mr. Siemens" oli päässyt kohoamaan tärkeään asemaan joko Pentagonissa tai jonkun puolustusteollisuuden yhtiön palveluksessa. Tai sitten koko juttu on vain satua, jolla pyrittiin luomaan kuva siitä, että sota olisi vielä voitettavissa.

Tuolloin epäiltiin, että osa U-veneistä oli jotenkin valehdellut sijaintinsa, joten säätiedon hankkiminen pohjoiselta alueelta oli tärkeää, jotta voitiin selvittää, että oliko tuo sukellusvene siellä missä sen päällikkö väitti sen olevan. Matkalla kohti kanadaa U-537 joutui myrskyyn, missä se sai vaurioita, eli menetti esimerkiksi sen tornissa olleen neliputkisen IT-tykin, niin se onnistui kuitenkin tuossa tehtävässään.

Eräiden salaliittoteoreetikoiden mukaan nuo konetykit luovutettiin matkalla saksan tiedustelun eli Abwehrin agenteille, jotka sitten olisivat niiden avulla koettaneet murhata Rooseveltin. Tarinan mukaan noihin konetykkeihin piti asentaa kiikaritähtäin, jonka avulla tuo ase sitten saatiin kohdennettua tuohon kohteeseensa. Tuo säähavaintoasema myös tarinoiden mukaan toimi eräälaisena radiomajakkana, jonka avulla U-veneet saattoivat käyttää myös radiosuuntimalaitteitaan ollessaan USA:n rannikolla tai eteläisellä atlantilla, jossa Saksan suuntimaan käytettävien radioiden linjat olisivat liian loivia tarkkaan navigoimiseen.

Mutta KURT:illa epäiltiin olevan vielä yksi tehtävä: toimia vakoojien radioiden releasemana, jossa siihen kiinnitettyyn radiovastaanottimeen kerättiin Abwehrin Pohjois-Amerikassa olevien agenttien radiolähettimien viestit, ja sitten ne lähetettiin eteenpäin kohti Berliiniä. KURT paljastui vasta vuonna 1970, ja se on näytilä Kanadan sotamuseossa. Kaikkein villeimmissä teorioissa tuota laitetta käytettiin, kun saksan sukellusveneet kohtasivat huoltoaluksia keskellä valtamerta, ja tämän villin kertomuksen mukaan Martin Bormann nousi keskellä Atlantia johonkin troolariin lähellä joko Azoreita tai Kanarian saaria, jossa natseilla ehkä oli vielä  ystäviä, jotka auttoivat heitä kohti Etelä-Amerikkaa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt