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To: rlmorel

Surprisingly, Kaiser had never built any ships prior to WWII. Sounds like he did pretty well overall. As you said, you fight with what you have. US torpedoes were terrible for the first couple of years, and complaints about them were met with something to the effect, use them anyway, that’s all we’ve got.


12 posted on 05/16/2026 7:15:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

US torpedoes were terrible for the first couple of years, and complaints about them were met with something to the effect, use them anyway, that’s all we’ve got.


As I understand it, the response was along the lines of, “The torpedoes are fine, you are missing your targets or setting them wrong.”


21 posted on 05/17/2026 6:27:28 AM PDT by hanamizu
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