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Antique Radio Forums • View topic - Here's a tough little tube

The proximity fuze is one of the great unsung 'secret wepaons' of WWII. It was Eisenhower who demanded he be allowed to use the fuzes and they were instrumental to the Allied victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

Bad weather had been a critical component of the German plan and they felt relatively safe from timed fire because they thought low visibility would prevent accurate observation, preventing accurate timer settings. The VT fuse didn't need anything but to be fired into the general area and it decimated German divisions caught in the open.