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To: JWashington69

Bombs or Torpedoes? In the end it didn’t matter.

If our Torpedoes worked, the war would have ended much earlier.

Only the dive bombers did any damage.


3 posted on 06/04/2019 1:06:03 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

One of Hollywood’s best movies (Midway). Saw it in the theaters in SENSURROUND! “We’re we just better than the Japanese or just luckier?”

All Star cast; Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Hal Holbrook, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum and of course Pat Morita (aka Mr Miagi and Arnold from Happy Days)


6 posted on 06/04/2019 1:15:11 PM PDT by JWashington69 (FRANCIS!!!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Lots of reference for your post:

https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/2017/05/25/ensign-george-h-gays-fateful-day-june-4-1942/

Here’s the Mark 14 torpedo story...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo


10 posted on 06/04/2019 1:19:59 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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