soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Mar 27, 8:02 pm, thorn...@visi.com (David Thornley) wrote:
> In article <47eaf18d$0$17201$afc38...@news.optusnet.com.au>,YMC wrote:
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> >I wonder what happened to the USN officers in charge of torpedo development
> >during the 1930s?
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> Much better things than they deserved.
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SNIP
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Might spread a little blame on Congress for starving the services of
development money. Tough to do anything worth while when all the
services are trying to get by on what A-Rod thinks is chump change.
German Navy had same problem with their magnetic exploder which really
surfaced (heh) during the Narvik battle - Uboat skippers raised hell
after failing to sink Warspite despite her entering Narvik fjord.
German Navy lost a bunch of DDs. An investigation resulted in several
high ranking officers getting court martialed and shot 'to encourage
the others'. Problem remedied tout suite. Hitler did have a bit of a
temper when he lost a boat.
Walt BJ