lmritger wrote:
The TBD was a perfectly capable and stable platform, but the torpedo itself required a long, steady run in order to (hopefully) work correctly, so in order for the attack to succeed, they needed strong escort to keep the Japanese fighters away. VF-3 did a superb job of this at Coral Sea, which paved the way for VT-2's success... but at Midway, the torpedo squadrons had no support, and they paid the ultimate price.
It's my understanding that those torpedoes had a 90% failure rate, even when employed perfectly
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