SZ/OEMU/47/11/4 - The vulnerability of aircraft to fragments from heavy anti-anticraft shell burst in flight with particular reference to the Junkers Ju. 88 bomber, November 1943

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/47/11/4

Level of description

Item

Title

The vulnerability of aircraft to fragments from heavy anti-anticraft shell burst in flight with particular reference to the Junkers Ju. 88 bomber, November 1943

Date/s

1943

Quantity & Format

25 leaves

Subject

Junkers Ju-88 (Bomber)
Antiaircraft projectiles

Creator

Brown, R. W.

Creator

Simm, G.

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

A.C. 5420

SD/FP. 193

R.A.E. Technical note S.M.E. 194

Discusses the methods used in earlier investigations of this sort and the disadvantages of those methods. Records the new method used in recent trials and discusses the conclusions reached. Includes 11 drawings of a Junkers bomber.

Paper written Brown and Simm.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/47 - [OEMU. Fragmentation Panel]
    - SZ/OEMU/47/11 - [OEMU. Fragmentation Panel. Shells II]
      - SZ/OEMU/47/11/4 - The vulnerability of aircraft to fragments from heavy anti-anticraft shell burst in flight with particular reference to the Junkers Ju. 88 bomber, November 1943

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