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Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan
If I recall right, there were heavy suspicions that some of the sub losses during the war, were NOT from enemy action, but were instead victims of faulty torps.
Add to that, the sub forces, were NOT the only side of the fleet, to suffer from serious design flaws....
Take for instance, Cdr. Max Leslie, & Bombing 3, off the Yorktown.
The planes they flew, were outfitted with new bomb arming switches, that left 4 of the groups 17 planes, without ordnance... while en route to attack the japanese carriers.
And that's just some of what was known of... no telling how many other faulty designs there were in all.
M. M.
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Funny you bring that up. I'm in the middle of "Thunder Below", Gene Flucky and his patrols. He an a few of the officers are discussing erratic torpedoes. This is the list of boats and there broken torpedoes:
Uss Harder: suspected loss circular run.
Uss Tang: 3rd patrol 4 erratics reported. Sunk due to a circular run.
Uss Barb: 4th patrol total of 5 erratics.
Uss Tautog Suspected loss to circular run
Right off this discussion, the attacked a
Shokaku class carrier with 7 torpedoes. One hit! This a short list.
I wonder how we won the war!