Originally Posted by
Pheasant
Impact on morale......what is more likely to affect morale - a) an occasional bomb dropped from mega height which will probably miss or b) nightly pin-point air-burst 4.5" shells right over the tented camps, gun and radar positions etc???
Pheasant, it depends where it misses.
There is also a difference as the 1000lb ers were, I believe, forged rather than cast and thus less effective as anti-personnel weapons. The potential for a random damage swathe over a mile long and a quarter wide, delivered in 6 seconds is. I suggest, a different order of magnitude from a number of accurately laid 4.5s.
The Sea Slug OTOH in an anti-personnel role was not designed to sooth them to sleep either.