The WWII Invention of the First Effective Large Area Military Smoke Screen
Thank
you for visiting our information resource on one of the most unique yet
little known stories of military history: the WWII invention of the large area military smoke screen, an
invention that would forever change offensive and defensive strategy. This WWII invention had been attempted by many but only one succeeded.From Rum Runner to Inventor
Days after Pearl Harbor, Alonzo Patterson, a rum runner-turned-customs agent, donated to the US government the very technology that he once used against them--a military smoke screen of a kind that they had dreamed of but had never been able to develop. Patterson gave up all profit motive and turned over all of his revolutionary methods, his secret fog oil formulas and 10 portable working smoke screen apparatuses that would give his government a needed edge in the war and would save thousands of lives. It was an impressive package of the most pioneering military smoke screen technology ever invented.   This
invention was tried for over 2,000 years by the worlds greatest armies:
the Romans, Vikings, British, Germans, the United States, and others,
but not until WWII and the US government's discovery of the Patterson
technologies, did smoke screening become a true component of the
arsenal of the military strategist. This story shall expand upon our
current thinking of military history, particularly naval and marine
history, in WWII and beyond. This WWII invention, like others during this war, would become influential to future strategies. |
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