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Sims, Gary Lee.

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Damn the Torpedoes: The History of Science and Undersea Warfare in World War II.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Damn the Torpedoes: The History of Science and Undersea Warfare in World War II./
作者:	Sims, Gary Lee.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
面頁冊數:	334 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
標題:	Science history. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10270656
ISBN:	9781369810172

Damn the Torpedoes: The History of Science and Undersea Warfare in World War II.
Sims, Gary Lee.

Damn the Torpedoes: The History of Science and Undersea Warfare in World War II. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 334 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Montana State University, 2017.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy Submarine Service had the submarines to, if not repel the attack on the Philippines, at least slow the Japanese Navy's disbursement of troops and material on Luzon. They could not because of defective torpedoes. This book examines the US Navy's submarine service's torpedo controversy during World War II from December 7th 1941 through the resolution of the torpedo problems in October, 1943. By investigating War Patrol Reports, Action Reports and other official documents including personal and professional communiques between combat theater, command at Pearl Harbor and Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) in Washington, D.C., this work shows how the Mark XIV/VI torpedo was a highly-technical, high-risk invention for war. Failures occur in high-tech, high-risk systems such as this. The U.S. Navy should have been expected and prepared for these failures but they did not. To make matters worse, command in Washington went into denial that there even was a problem. This abstract explains that denial of the problem for almost two years by BuOrd and Naval Command in Washington D.C. was inevitable. Using modern theories of the construction of knowledge, their repudiation of the problem can be predicted response by response.

ISBN: 9781369810172Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144850
Science history.

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