- Author
- Buford Rowland and William B. Boyd · Bureau of Ordnance
- Date
- 1953
- Passage
- Printed pp.120–121 and 123 / PDF pp.129–130 and 132
What has been checked
Selected text read; PDF pp.129, 130 and 132 visually inspected on 18 October 2026.
How to read it
Retrospective institutional account, not a June 1942 technical manual or individual weapon return. The 105-torpedo test belongs to mid-1943, and fault categories overlap. Its results are not a Midway failure rate. Later improvements and launch limits are not applied to 1942 weapons.
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