Walkers in the Water?

[bayonetbrant]

Nope.  Anti-aircraft forts.

Maunsell also designed forts for anti-aircraft defence. These were larger installations comprising of seven interconnected steel platforms (army sea towers), five carried guns arranged in a semicircle around the control centre and accommodation while the seventh, set further out than the gun towers, was the searchlight tower. Three forts were placed in the Mersey and three in the Thames estuary between May and December, 1943. [Source: Wikipedia]

Each tower was built off a reinforced concrete base of 'Oxford picture frame' design. Four hollow reinforced concrete legs of 3' diameter supported the 36' x 36' (11 x 11 meters) steel house of two floors, with the military equipment installed on the top deck. Each fort accommodated up to 265 men. [Source: Project Redsand]

much more coolness at

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/the-maunsell-sea-forts-of-wwii-photos.html

[Staggerwing]

Where's the 'Thunder Child' when you need it...

[LongBlade]

Good stuff.

[TheCommandTent]

These are really cool.  I hadn't heard of them, thanks for the link.

[Longdan]

This was interesting:

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/nuclear-weapons-didnt-end-world-war-ii.html

[bayonetbrant]

This was interesting:

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/nuclear-weapons-didnt-end-world-war-ii.html

I covered this a bunch of years ago after a talk I attended at Ohio State

originally published http://wargamer.com/article/2182/A-Different-Theory-on-the-Japanese-Surrender (and apparently still claimed by Scott Parrino)
reprinted here http://grognews.blogspot.com/2011/08/anniversary-hiroshima.html

[TheCommandTent]

This was interesting:

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/nuclear-weapons-didnt-end-world-war-ii.html

I covered this a bunch of years ago after a talk I attended at Ohio State

originally published http://wargamer.com/article/2182/A-Different-Theory-on-the-Japanese-Surrender (and apparently still claimed by Scott Parrino)
reprinted here http://grognews.blogspot.com/2011/08/anniversary-hiroshima.html

Some interesting stuff there.  Alot of points to think through.

[LongBlade]

(and apparently still claimed by Scott Parrino)

Scott wrote all my best work ;)

[Sigma One]

Nah I'm a terrible writer :)

I'm actually been going back and fixing the articles, obviously the pain of it all was from a server update that defaulted the articles to one account. Luckily I got about 3 pots of coffee...

[Zulu1966]

Nope.  Anti-aircraft forts.

Maunsell also designed forts for anti-aircraft defence. These were larger installations comprising of seven interconnected steel platforms (army sea towers), five carried guns arranged in a semicircle around the control centre and accommodation while the seventh, set further out than the gun towers, was the searchlight tower. Three forts were placed in the Mersey and three in the Thames estuary between May and December, 1943. [Source: Wikipedia]

Each tower was built off a reinforced concrete base of 'Oxford picture frame' design. Four hollow reinforced concrete legs of 3' diameter supported the 36' x 36' (11 x 11 meters) steel house of two floors, with the military equipment installed on the top deck. Each fort accommodated up to 265 men. [Source: Project Redsand]

much more coolness at

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/the-maunsell-sea-forts-of-wwii-photos.html

Also the site of the truly most awful game show to grace television. Ever.