Talk:Operation Outward

Any photos or even a drawing of a balloon Bomb?

Are there any photos or drawings of what a British Balloon Bomb looked like?Teslaedsonfan (talk) 15:34, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

At least a picture is to be found here: http://sites.ieee.org/ny-monitor/files/2011/09/OPERATION-OUTWARD.pdf

Regards

Hans — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.169.9.14 (talk) 14:02, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Ballon in Sweden

http://forum.skalman.nu/download/file.php?id=4799

An article from a Swedish local paper, Östgöta Correspondenten, 10th February 1943.

A summary:

A balloon landed close to a small village in the vicinity of Norrköping. It consisted of a cover around four meters long and spool shaped. The balloon contained explosives and about 4 litres of petrol. It is thought to be of Russian origin. The military detonated it by shooting at it.

I scanned the article myself and for me you can use it.

Kind regards

Hans — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.169.9.14 (talk) 09:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

It should now be possible to link towards the article in riksarkivet's section for newspapers. Stefan skoglund (talk) 07:40, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

It doesn't matter - the material from http://tidningar.kb.se is too new and the papers hasn't released their immaterial rights to the scans. They are readable if you visit kb.se in person (and some other libraries.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefan skoglund (talk • contribs) 11:34, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Note on effects

"Outward caused damage in neutral countries – on the night of 19–20 January 1944, two trains collided at Laholm in Sweden after an Outward balloon knocked out electrical lighting on the railway."

This isn't completely correct. The railway was at that time already electrified and the balloon's wire shorted out and damaged part of the overhead line equipment. One of the effects was a change in order between a fast sleeper train and a long distance goods train compared with the time-table. Train Snt 37 (the fast train) was hit in the back by the goods train. The accident was caused by the man in the local signal box who didn't reset the station's home signal (infartssignal) after the arrival of the passenger train. The fault can maybe be traced to personnel fatigue.

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Is references to riksarkivet's newspapers scans ok? Stefan skoglund (talk) 07:42, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

References