1/2 I spoke before of the cassion possibly being built from a sub's conning tower, and this angle just reinforces that notion. (Or it may just be confirmation bias.) But it does look like it's been shortened...
The Baker bomb, and its waterproof caisson. "Made in New Mexico" was scrawled on the side. Courtesy Peter Kuran.pic.twitter.com/O6p3PdEWEg
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2/2 Someone with madder skillz than I could compare to the diagrams in Alden's "The Fleet Submarine in the U.S. Navy" or Friedman's "US Submarines" (both volumes have diagrams of Fleet types).
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Thanks, it's the first time I have ever seen a picture of that.
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Interesting, I've never seen the first pic before. I didn't realise a 'droppable' bomb was used. I imagined it'd just be the internal technical parts.
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