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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Dec,1, 1941

Press release.

US. to use new torpedo design.
"More reliable" say experts.
No testing will be done so as not to spur "arms race" with
Japan.


2 posted on 03/02/2007 5:44:52 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68
Dec,1, 1941 Press release. US. to use new torpedo design.

Ironically, during the first two years of the Pacific war, hundreds, if not thousands of our torpedoes were duds.

6 posted on 03/02/2007 5:54:19 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: tet68

Sorry, missed the irony and sarcasm. You are spot on.


7 posted on 03/02/2007 5:56:49 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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