Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:29 AM 11/23/1999 -0800, Stephen wrote: >Not sure about the Contax, but the US Navy did have a Kodak 35 periscope kit >during W.W.II, along with a portable darkroom which disassembled compactly in a >wooden box. > I suspect this is exceedingly rare, as SUBPAC vetoed use of the kit after, I recall, one mission. The sailors found it just didn't work, and it was rapidly replaced with the Bentzin Primarflex set I mentioned earlier. See, inter multa alia, Roscoe's PIGBOATS (aka, SUBMARINE OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II) for discussion. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!