Originally Posted by
Icare9
While I'm asking - were the German explosives weight for weight more powerful than ours? During the Blitz their medium bombers seemed to inflict more damage "per bomb" than what seems the equivalent in Germany.
What I know about explosives could be written on the back of a postage stamp in letters about a foot high but I'm sure I read somewhere in the dim and distant past that that was indeed the case earlier during the war.
Again from memory, it was because German explosives contained aluminium, presumably as a powder, and ours didn't. Finally somebody important said 'Why not?' and our explosives were changed.