Elco 80-foot motor torpedo boat simultaneously launching two practice torpedoes during a training exercise in United States waters, 1942-44.

Caption   Elco 80-foot motor torpedo boat simultaneously launching two practice torpedoes during a training exercise in United States waters, 1942-44. ww2dbase
Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Navy
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Added By David Stubblebine
Added Date 22 Feb 2014
Licensing  Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government".



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1. samII says:
14 Jun 2017 03:31:08 PM

a shame the torps were so bad in early part of the war
2. Jeff Davidson says:
5 Jul 2018 10:07:48 AM

PT 731, note that the torpedoes are being fired by compressed air rather than the explosive charge used by earlier tubes.

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