Storepedo
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Storepedo
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A storepedo, or alternately storpedo, is a cylindrical storage container with an attached parachute. Resupplying troops in the jungle by air drop during World War II was proving problematic. Regular parachutes were costly in both money and material. Drops without parachutes risked loss of the materials due to the impact. The Australian Inventions Directorate in headed by Sir Laurence Hartnett tasked the Ordnance Production Directorate to produce a solution. G.W Griffiths, on a secondment with th
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