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As metal supplies dwindled, alternative shipbuilding materials were considered. One such material was Pykrete, a mixture of ice and wood pulp. The mixture was formed into blocks for building ships to be used in the cold waters of the Mid-Atlantic.
Lord Mountbatten demonstrated the material's strength vs regular ice for a gathering of Allied Forces leaders and military commanders, including Churchill and Roosevelt.
He fired a round into the ice and it shattered.
He fired a round into the pykrete and it bounced off and nicked the trousers leg of US Fleet Admiral Ernest King.
"...be utterly amazed, for I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." - Book of Habbakuk
Lord Mountbatten demonstrated the material's strength vs regular ice for a gathering of Allied Forces leaders and military commanders, including Churchill and Roosevelt.
He fired a round into the ice and it shattered.
He fired a round into the pykrete and it bounced off and nicked the trousers leg of US Fleet Admiral Ernest King.
"...be utterly amazed, for I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." - Book of Habbakuk
