[Tallguy]

“Perhaps if the Brits would have shared their torpedo technology with us, things might have turned out differently in the early years of the Pacific War. Their torpedos seem to work.”

Considering the range of technological assistance going both ways across the Atlantic I think the Brits would have helped in that area if asked. The problem was that the USN wouldn’t even admit that there was a problem for a long time.

[Jeff Chandler]

I think the Brits would have helped in that area if asked. The problem was that the USN wouldn’t even admit that there was a problem for a long time.

A war documentary stated that when the U.S. joined the war, U.S. naval officers rejected the idea of using convoys -- a tactic the Brits found indispensable years before.

After their hubris cost many lives and much cargo, they relented and started using convoys.

[Grampa Dave]

The problem was that the USN wouldn’t even admit that there was a problem for a long time.

[hanamizu]

The problem was that the USN wouldn’t even admit that there was a problem for a long time.

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What’s the old saying: the first step in solving a problem is admitting you have a problem. In reading Neptune”s Inferno it turns out that it wasn’t just our submarine’s torpedos that didn’t work, the ones on destroyers didn’t work either. In contrast the Japanese Long Lance was very effective.

I know torpedos are expensive, but didn’t the Navy test them before sending them out to the fleet?

[DesertRhino]

Hell, the Navy barely cooperates with other branches of the US Military. The Brits would be out of the question. And you are correct about the Brits helping already with technology, they shared radar before Pearl Harbor, they shared examples of their jet engine while we developed the P-80