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Generally I find these counterfactual weapons arguments unenlightening. They almost always take the form of 'What if the Germans had more of these cool (fill in the blank) that really kicked ass? Wouldn't that make the Nazis victorious?' The ones that deal with real weapons aren't as tedious as the ...

Yep, it was a blank charge. My dad said he would watch the launch & recovery of the float planes if he could. It wasn't necessary to use a "blank" charge. The 5"/38 DP gun, which was a standard weapon on virtually every class of USN warship, fired a two-piece round: a 55lb projec...