----- Original Message -----
From: "Renaud OLGIATI" <rolgiati@bigfoot.com>
To: "Military Vehicles List" <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] CDL Vehicles ??? Fact or Fantasy ?
> On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Tim wrote:
>
> > He called it a CDL Vehicle -
> <snip>
> > Does anyone know what he's talking about - is this true... or has he
been
> > watching that 2001 Space film too much ?
>
> Four pages on the subject in G Futter's book "the funnies" which
> describes all the strange armour used by the 79th AD.
>
> The CDL was a specialized searchlight mounted in the turret of either a
> Grant or a Matilda. Shining its light through a narrow slit, the
> searchlight was well nigh immune to small arms fire.
>
> Some were used for the crossing of the Rhine
>
Yes indeed, its absolutely true.
There is a CDL in the Bovington Museum, the name CDL was used as a security
cover as the extremely powerful arc lamp could be modulated by a motor
driven shutter to dazzle or even paralyse the enemy troops by using a flash
rate near to the human brain wave pattern, about 7 cycles/sec. A very early
example of psy-war techniques.
The night-time picture of several CDLs illuminating the Rhine crossing is
very famous.
Richard
Southampton - England
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