Omaha beach 1951

[dujardin]

Pluto's remnant just after war

 

[Peter Graham]

Marcel, many thanks for the great photos and the info on USS Thompson. I was very interested to read that she starred in The Caine Mutiny. What a great movie, and a great book too. If you find any more postwar photos of the landing beaches please post them.

 

[derleicaman]

Pluto's remnant just after war

Wow, what is this thing? I did a little research on PLUTO. Stood for Pipeline Under The Ocean and was supposedly dreamed up by Mountbatten. This thing looks like the Conun Drum (or Conundrum) which held 60 nautical miles of flexible HAMEL steel pipeline. Description says they were 30' in diameter and weighed 250 tons! These were towed behind a ship and the pipeline played out from them on the ocean floor. Anyone else have any info about these? I knew about the pipeline, but never saw or knew about this stuff.

 

[derleicaman]

Looking closer at the photo, the "wires" you can see must have been the pipe itself. It looks like a tow cable attachment on the end of the cone with some tow cable still attached. This thing must have acted like a giant bobbin realing off the pipeline "thread" behind the tow vessel. This kind of stuff boggles the mind when you imagine how they came up with this stuff on short notice. Especially compared to the way things happen these days, when you would have had environmental impact studies up the wazu while the nazis sat safe and sound on the continent. I admire the get her done spirit of the times bach then! When did we turn into such wimps?

 

[derleicaman]

Check out this video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv9lBqPV ... rel=0&hd=1