Cutaway of the electrical energizer for the VT proximity fuze developed by the National Carbon Corporation, from a 1946 Bureau of Ordnance publication.Mitscher in cockpit on board USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 15 May 1946Navy Bureau of Ordnance diagram showing a VT fuze’s area of radio sensitivity and comparative blast zone for shell fragments.
Cutaway of the electrical energizer for the VT proximity fuze developed by the National Carbon Corporation, from a 1946 Bureau of Ordnance publication.Mitscher in cockpit on board USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 15 May 1946Navy Bureau of Ordnance diagram showing a VT fuze’s area of radio sensitivity and comparative blast zone for shell fragments.


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