"Project Sock" 1943 ...

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Mark Allen M

"Project Sock" 1943 ...

Mon Dec 02, 2019 6:38 pm

U.S. Navy Seabees during World War II in the Pacific theater used modular pontoons for just about everything. So they tried this attempt at a mobile airfield. Turns out it was determined it probably couldn't handle sustained wave pounding at expected forward deployment locations.

Below a nice pdf of U.S. Navy Seabees During World War II

http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses ... evised.pdf

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Re: "Project Sock" 1943 ...

Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:02 am

Interesting, thanks for posting. Looks like a SNJ lower right.

Similar to the Seaplane bases planned for the mobile base concepts for SeaDart, Tradewinds, SeaMasters, etc.
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