Truck-Towed Balloons for Convoy's Defense

Title (Dublin Core): Truck-Towed Balloons for Convoy's Defense
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Airplanes and Zeppelins
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Truck-Towed Balloons. Shield Troop Convoys with Fences and Steel
extracted text (Extract Text): BABIES of the barrage-balloon family—
tiny hydrogen-filled aerial ‘sausages’
—now protect troop convoys from attack
by low-flying enemy planes. Controlled by
winches on trucks or on the ground, they
hamstring attackers by lacing the air
with steel cables. They are operated by
VLA (very low altitude) barrage-balloon
batteries. Easy to inflate and send aloft,
they can be lowered nearly 200 feet a
minute. The system has been used with
success in several war zones. Strafers
and bombers think twice before risking
entanglement with the cables.
Contributor (Dublin Core): U. S. Army Signal Corps (photographer)
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1943-10
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 143, n. 4, 1943
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 57
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Matteo Ridolfi; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): United States of America