Group: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
From: "Scott M. Kozel"
Date: Friday, March 21, 2008 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: What if: US subs had good torps in WW2

ohara...@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> Basically, start with the premise that the USA subs at the beginning
> of WW2 had good torpedoes, or at least as good as they were supposed
> to be. How would the war have been different?

Question: Why is today's (last 20 years or so) most common slang term
for torpedoes, "torp(s)", when the most common WWII slang term for
torpedoes, was "fish"?