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Okay, we all know the Mark 14 Torpedo was a badly engineered pile of junk when if first appeared, and never got the live-fire trial it so desperately needed. But what if it had got a live-fire trial, what if CNO William prat hadn't been such an idiot and had offered the USS Ericsson without the strings attached, how would having a better torpedo (not necessarily a fully working one, but the deep-running and contact exploder issues ought to be noted and by a live-fire test) change the Pacific War?
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