Torpedoes, Toyota, and Turnarounds

by Robert N. Charette

"The only reliable feature of the torpedo was its unreliability."

So said Theodore Roscoe of the US Navy's Mark XIV torpedo during the early stages of World War II in his book, United States Submarine Operations in World War II (US Naval Institute Press, June 1949).

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