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Old 19th Oct 2020, 09:39
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Originally Posted by GeeRam
I think that wartime raid film shows this Tallboy making a splash in water, as there is a splash that is a lot smaller than the other Tallboys that clearly explode, and its a big enough splash to be a 12000lb Tallboy hitting the water and not going off.....and if you freeze frame both films and screen shot it, it does look very close to being the same one.....but I'm not an expert.
The ship would have been in front of the saw tooth dock structure that has been built since, but the jetty coming down from the two U-Boat pens on the opposite site appears to be roughly the same still.

The second bomb went in very close to the one that was in the process of exploding, both in distance and time, could the first bomb have slowed the descent of the first one in the water or toppled it enough to stop it exploding?
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