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RE: torpedo failures..?
Posted by: John R. ()
Date: December 08, 2000 06:03PM

<HTML>Was it Prien, or was it Kretschmer who told Doenitz that? One of the 2 anyway. I can\'t remember which book of mine I got this out of, but most books on the Pacific campaign go into the problem, esp. those written by the skippers, since it was a problem very \"close to the heart\". The interesting thing about the German and US experience is that both torpedo depts. sent the fish to war based on a lot of technical paperwork, and very few test-firings with live warheads...Too expensive! (\"We have lots of fancy torpedos at 25,000 Marks apiece, but not 10 Pfennig\'s worth of old wire!!!\" Name the Movie...) I seem to recall that during testing of the American fish, they based success on whether or not the firing pin marked where the primer was supposed to be. In battle, they found that the pin would \"tap\" the primer enough to mark it, but not hard enough to explode it.....</HTML>

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RE: torpedos failures..? Joe Brennan 12/08/2000 02:21AM
RE: torpedos failures..? John R. 12/08/2000 02:17PM
RE: torpedo failures..? j harvey 12/08/2000 05:51PM
RE: torpedo failures..? John R. 12/08/2000 06:03PM
RE: torpedo failures..? jharvey 12/08/2000 07:22PM
RE: torpedo failures..? John R. 12/08/2000 08:25PM
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RE: torpedo failures..? John 12/09/2000 05:50PM
RE: torpedo failures..? kurt 12/09/2000 10:51PM
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