Vote now: Hottest, Coolest WWII Gadgets!

It’s time to vote!
To celebrate the release of my new book in January, December Radio, which describes what might have happened had the Nazi’s built a viable nuclear bomb, we are voting on the hottest or coolest gadget in WWII. The nominations, with links so you can read more information, are below the voting box. Make your choice carefully.

You have 6 votes per person. Please give 3 votes to your favourite (click the yellow vote button between each vote), 2 votes to your second favourite (click the yellow vote button between each vote) and 1 vote to your third favourite. Click ‘View Results’ to check you have voted.

Voting closes Sunday 13th December at midnight GMT.

Here are the nominations (in no particular order):

Die Glocke – German project to build an anti-gravity craft, detailed in The Hole Inside the Earth
Krummlauf – an insane German device for shooting round corners
British Churchill Tank – that could lay a bridge within minutes
Silverbird – an orbital bomber, precursor to the Space Shuttle and able to ‘skip’ along the Earth’s atmosphere (in theory) to New York and on to Tokyo. Read more about it in December Radio
The Bouncing Bomb – Designed by Barnes Wallis to be used by 617 Squadron to successfully attack the Rhein dams
The Horten flying Wing – only one remains – locked away in an American hangar
Focke-Wulf Triebflügel – A Vertical Take off and Landing aircraft. Despite what this article says, I have seen grainy photos of one finished and which I believe flew twice, killing its pilot.
Fritz X – the first guided missile (by radio), designed in Germany
The TDR-1 Assault Drone – this amazing USA device was not only a guided bomb but it could also be carried by a gliding drone, as in this grainy photograph. More info half way down the page here: http://www.tfcbooks.com/special/missiles.htm Its bigger brother used a B-17 or B-24 bomber guided using television
The Nazi Nuclear Bomb – that might have worked. It used an ingenious method to create fission according to this source (unverified). Read more about it in December Radio
Focke-Achgelis_Fa_330 – a gyroglider that could be towed behing a U-boat so that the observer could see further
The Bombe – an electro-mechanical computing device used at Bletchley Park to decrypt the Enigma Code
Focke-Achgelis_Fa_223 – A dual rotor helicopter
Enigma Machine – The German encryption machine that created a coded message which was, at first, considered virtually impossible to decipher
RAF Pigeons – Okay maybe this isn’t exactly cool but it’s so nuts I had to include them! Some of them were awarded bravery medals. They deserve a mention!