Iron Men and Tin Fish
Subtitle: The Race to Build a Better Torpedo during World War II (War, Technology, and History)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth
Published: August 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780275990329
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; History of specific subjects; Second World War, 1939-1945; History; History - Military / War; Military; Military - Naval; Military - Weapons; Military - World War II; History / Military / World War II; 20th century; Design and construction; Equipment; Naval operations; Submarine; Torpedoes; United States; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.S. submarines experienced an abnormally high number of torpedo failures. These failures resulted from three defects in the primary torpedo of the day, the Mark 14, which had a tendency to run deeper than the set depth, to detonate prematurely, and to experience the failure of the contact exploder when hitting a target at the textbook ninety-degree angle." "Iron Men and Tin Fish is the first book that deals exclusively with the torpedo problem, building its case out of original research from the archives of the Bureau of Ordnance and records from the British Admiralty at the National Archives of the United Kingdom. These sources are complemented by correspondence and interviews with men who actually participated in the events, including the Chief of Naval Operations."--BOOK JACKET.