Window details

Each window strip was just under a thousandth of an inch thick and a sixteenth to a quarter inch wide, such strips taking two hours to fall from 3,000 feet to the ground. A six ounce bundle of 6,000 strips looked on radar as if it was 3 heavy bombers.
The first trial operationally was over Hamburg on 24 July 1943.
Over 20 million pounds of window was eventually dropped over Europe alone. The Germans offered a tax-free prize of 700,000 Reichsmarks in a public contest for ideas to counteract window.
(Extracts from “3 steps to victory” by Sir Robert Watson-Watt)
I remember myself as a very young boy seeing the effect on the ground at RAF Waddington when (perhaps accidentally) a lot of window was dropped, and simply smothered the ground in silver, like snow! For us youngsters it was a minor miracle!

Sent you a PM Anna, hi!

Does FSM stand for “Full Scale Model”?
I thought it was real! There must have been hundreds if not thousands around at the end of the war! At least enough to have a couple of real ones, anyway. Although I guess they were very much hated objects at that time.

As early as possible in the week, Tim, despite my previous uncalled-for comment, there would have been at least twice as many Mustangs in that field a few days before! I tried to phone your mobile this afternoon without success by the way, to chat about your trip, as I am now a “veteran” of two successive Oshkoshes!
Peter

Kenosha Museum

Hi Tim, these are the best airframes there, at least they were in the summer of 2003, you couldn’t say that any were complete!

Sentimental Journey

In British Columbia, August 2004

The Kenosha “Museum” mentioned in post #6 is hardly worth the time, in my opinion, it’s more like a glorified scrap yard! I have photos if you are interested, from my visit in 2003 . . .