Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/18
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Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Biava" Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Forbidden building
>I was not around to see it, but new American submarines were built in
>Wisconsin and traveled down the Mississippi to the Gulf on
>their way to the war. And that's a fact....
>
>
> ( But to tell "the rest of the story" they were transported on river
> barges.) {8o)
>
> Christopher Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> During WWII, Germans living in New Orleans(including ambassadors) were
> using their cameras(on fishing trips) to photograph the
> waterways in and around the mouth of the Mississippi River. Of course now
> we know there was no way a U-Boat could get into the
> Miss
> River but they had excellent targets at the mouth of the river to shoot at
> for 2 years before we actually did something about it.
>
> I've never had any problems here photographing bridges, but like Jeff
> pointed out, the local gov does not like their refineries
> photographed.
>
> Chris