Big D: Yep, they thought they would use blast effect against ships but that did not work out. But based on fighting in North Africa they found that non-armor piercing artillery could stop Tiger tanks by blowing the treads off. So they tried the blast warheads and they worked on tanks, not penetrating but disabling them.

For the antitank rockets they tried to make them armor piercing but they could not penetrate the thicker armors. But they found that the shape of the head made the rockets pitch up when they hit the water. So you could aim in front of the ship and have the rocket penetrate the hull below the water level. And if you missed the water and hit the ship there was nothing wrong with that, either.

Was it Gen Sherman who said “It is well that war is so terrible lest we love it too much?’ Well, he lived up to that when he burned down my home town. Of course, they burned down the wrong church. Were aiming for First Baptist where the Succession Convention originally had been convened but were redirected to the Methodist Church around the corner by the black janitor.