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Old 06-20-2011, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly View Post
One can only wonder if the war would have lasted into 1945 if the USN had started with a operational torpedo?
I think it wouldn't have made too much difference in how fast we got to Japan. By the time we got to Okinawa, the USN was running out of Japanese targets, especially merchant ones, to hit. They simply lacked the fuel to use their ships, military or civil.
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