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Cat Bombardier Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

West Texas Reviewer: As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.If the owner wishes to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future (not to exceed 15 days from the date of this entry), just contact me (by e-mail), and assuming it still meets the current Guidelines, I will consider unarchiving this cache.

Please be advised this is not a guarantee that this geocache will be unarchived. Many factors will go into my decision. The most important of which is how you responded to geocachers who tried to communicate with you regarding the problem(s) with this geocache hide and how you communicated with me, the West Texas Reviewer.

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Hidden : 5/8/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

Park and Grab

In World War II the OSS wanted to attack the enemy ship Tirpitz. The ship was north of Norway and anchored above the Arctic Circle. The war ship could not be attacked by surface vessels, for its anchorage was considered to be impenetrable.
One day, Stanley P. Lovell , a noted chemist and holder of scores of patents, recieved a visit from a man who described himself as an expert on felines. The centerpiece of the scheme would be a cat. A cat always lands on its feet, and a cat hates water. So his idea was to parachute a feline, feet down, in a harness below a bomb with a mechanism set so that the animal's every move would guide the vanes of the free-falling bomb.
A trial run had to be made at a small airfield outside Washinton. A cat in a harness was dropped and became unconscious and, therefore, ineffective in the first fifty feet of the fall, so she had no control over the bomb's direction.
The cat bombardier project was quietly buried.

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