Re: Unguided, surface to surface rockets in WW2: effective?

On Jan 16, 6:44 pm, thorn...@xxxxxxxx (David Thornley) wrote:
In article <hZijj.178$u...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

Branek <barronbra...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've always been curious as to how effective unguided, surface to surface
rockets were
in WW2.
SNIP:
They were saturation weapons. Have you seen clips of the rocket-
launching small ships firing at a beach prior to the landing? They
were aimed, in a sense - they all landed in the same general area.
Unless you were in a bunker you were exposed to them. 6 from a
nebelwerfer - 24 or so from a Sherman tank, hundreds from a bank of
Katyushas, several times that from an LSM(R) (ISTR that term) - the
landing support rocket launching ship(s). Just like carpet bombing but
I believe a degree more accurate.
Walt BJ

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