EARLY EPISODE: The MK 14 Torpedo and Why the US Hated Its Own Submariners
Added 2021-05-20 17:51:37 +0000 UTCJoe is joined by Liam of WTYP to talk about the time the US kept sinking their own submarines in WWII
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Loving this episode. I haven't finished it yet, but if you don't get to this one thing you may want to cover is just how insanely amazingly effective the Japanese torpedoes of WW2 at the same time were. A series on the Naval Battles of Guadalcanal would highlight this, as the Japanese used night fighting tactics and their torpedoes to just trounce the US navy several times..... even though the US ships had a decided technical advantage in Radar. The supreme irony is that in the series of battles, every time the US commander knew how to use radar, the US won, and then after each of those battles the commander got replaced with some new Admiral fresh off the beach who didn't know squat about Radar. Most of those Admirals also didn't believe the Japanese could build a good torpedo, either. A lot of Americans died pointlessly because of this.
James Van Dyke
2021-05-25 21:35:20 +0000 UTCFor the record I can confirm almost all of us submariners are strange
John the penguin
2021-05-23 02:05:19 +0000 UTCYay Liam and also this is my favourite awful US naval screw up, those torpedoes were so terrible for so long.
SpookyPenguin
2021-05-21 22:22:29 +0000 UTCAlso a deck gun round cost one hell of a lot less than a torpedo.
FortressPlotter
2021-05-21 19:56:36 +0000 UTCYAY LIAM
Kentucky Fried Commie
2021-05-21 16:49:22 +0000 UTCYAY LIAM
zahracusdottir
2021-05-21 11:51:46 +0000 UTCAlso yay Liam
Sean RD
2021-05-21 07:02:09 +0000 UTCNot sure about this dude but in Houston Kuykendall rd is pronounced Kirk-en-doll.
Sean RD
2021-05-21 07:02:04 +0000 UTCSilent victory by blair is a fantastic book about this topic.
2021-05-20 23:22:28 +0000 UTCAs has become tradition: Yay Liam!
ZombieDwarf
2021-05-20 20:57:13 +0000 UTCYay Liam!
Kerriarchy
2021-05-20 20:54:44 +0000 UTC*Soviet Anthem Intensifies*
Evan Williams
2021-05-20 20:08:50 +0000 UTCYay Liam!
Will
2021-05-20 18:48:44 +0000 UTCyay liam
2021-05-20 18:44:25 +0000 UTCYay Liam! I suddenly feel like I'm not alone in thinking that Joe and Liam could do a podcast together
Jordan Y Clementi
2021-05-20 18:41:21 +0000 UTCPronouns are comrade and comrade
Evan Williams
2021-05-20 18:37:42 +0000 UTCYAY LIAM
Evan Williams
2021-05-20 18:36:22 +0000 UTCYAY LIAM!
Jason Milewski
2021-05-20 18:15:47 +0000 UTCYay Liam! And yay Joe!
Pol R
2021-05-20 18:09:36 +0000 UTCYay Liam
Tom Hauptman
2021-05-20 18:06:01 +0000 UTCLi yayam!
Chris Morse
2021-05-20 17:58:38 +0000 UTCYay Liam
Asha Quinn
2021-05-20 17:54:55 +0000 UTCYay Liam
Oscar Jimenez
2021-05-20 17:52:35 +0000 UTC
