As reported here several years ago, she spent many months in DC trying to get the attention of the USN bureaucracy...
Meanwhile, our torpedoes were laughably pathetic, ultimately costing many Amercan sailor’s lives, either missing or not exploding 80% of the time they were used on jap ships...
It took the Naval bureaucracy 2 years before they finally did something about it (instead of continuing to blame the sub commanders as incompetent), using, in part, her brilliant designs...
I had an uncle who was part of that WWII Naval bureaucracy and, when I returned from Korea in 1953, he regaled me with the torpedo story...
Similar incompetence was the refusal of the AAC to properly deploy fighter escorts for heavy bombers in 1943. The Bomber Mafia was wedded to the idea of unescorted raids because those 10 Ma Deuces and defensive formations could do it all, right!? The result was huge losses of aircrew and aircraft that didn’t have to be.
No AI slop from this YouTuber:
The P 38 Lighting and the Bomber Mafia’s Failure In World War Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFI8frj1NbM&list=PLD2EcpzcvT-tbzZrbEuetBOalWtEiILpF&index=1
“In WW2 during 1943 the U.S. Army Air Force failed to provide heavy bombers with fighter escorts when flying deep into Germany. This was due to both incompetence and intent on the part of the Bomber Mafia, resulting in huge losses of U.S. Airmen and equipment.
The solution was right in front of them the whole time, they just refused to take advantage of it until losses were so high by late 1943 that they had no choice.
The P-38 Lightning had been able to fly deep into Germany from about mid 1942 and could have escorted all the way to Berlin and beyond by mid 1943. Not to mention the fact that the P-47 could have escorted deep into Germany early in 1943 had the USAAF simply bought the right drop tanks for it.
The is the story about how some rebels within the USAAF worked under the radar of the Bomber Mafia to get drop tanks into production for the P-38. It’s a wild ride so get your favorite beverage and come along for the ride.”