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Mail Torpedo Failures
You can thank a U.S. Navy captain in the ordnance department (and his friends in the bureaucracy) for trying to cover up the torpedo failures that were reported [“Damn the Torpedoes,” Winter 2024] rather than trying to fix things. The Mark 14 was a h
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Lightning Strikes
IF YOU ASK ME, World War II’s coolest airplane is the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. It looks like something a kid might have doodled in a notebook while daydreaming in class. I became enthralled with the airplane in junior high when I read a book by Marti
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Friend Or Foe?
As some of you correctly guessed, we removed the landing gear from the Grumman F6F Hellcat aboard HMS Indomitable. Please email your answers to this issue’s challenge to [email protected]. SEE OUR SUMMER ISSUE FOR THE ANSWER TO THIS ISSUE’S C

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