[ARC5] Torpedos....

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 2 Jul 2013 at 14:04, Robert  Eleazer wrote:

> But on the other hand,  it was amazing how fast a team of scientists -
> many of them right out of school - and combined with US industry -
> came up with a war winner of a weapon, the air dropped acoustic homing
> torpedo, to attack U-boats. It sank a sub on its very first combat use
> - which occurred while the USN was still bickering internally over the
> RI factory's faults.  And then they went on to fix the RI factory
> weapons and design new superior ones.

Yes. But in the meantime, our men died and opportunities were lost. I agree 
with you: the entire RI delegation should have been tried for treason...and 
everyone connected with them too.

What a total scandal. It was disgusting. And similar things are happening 
today...of course.

Ken W7EKB