Notice that Kurfurst has deliberately avoided the fact that guns in the BoB were armed with common sauces.
The Luftwaffe had access to British HP brown sauce after over-running British bases in France 1940 and decided that it was suitably spicy to load their MG's with it before moving to their own brand. The RAF tried it but stocks were low so switched to tomato ketchup just before the BOB. This was issued to all airfield NAAFI wagons and armourers would just take all the sachets direct from there. If you correlate the growth of Heinz and HP companies from pre to post war, looking at use of sauces, and the fact that there is no mention of this in any flight report anywhere ever, then we can conclude that it was in full use by both sides. I think the British experimented with Indian curry sauce on the Spitfire Ib model but it was a bit lumpy and the guns would jam. That squadron asked for their ketchup back immediately.
Since there is no evidence of this it can't be ruled out.
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06-02-2012, 08:21 PM
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