Re: The "media" causing US servicemen deaths


Peter Skelton wrote:

I'm sorry but that absolutely disproves the possibility. To
change within a month, the Japanese have to design an improved
depth charge, test it, produce it, and distribute it. They also
had to produce and distribute the necessary documentation (the
tables etc. for how deep the sub was depending on when it
disappeared from the cone needed ubgrading) and train operators
in its use. It took the British several months (nine IIRC, but I
didn't check) after the demonstrated need, there is no way the
Mickey Mouse Japanese ASW folks were going to do better.

This one's a non-starter.

Unless you can provide some evidence that- that was all required it
is an argument based on a false premise. Our DC fuses were adjustable
do you have proof that theirs weren't? What evidence can you cite that
shows their deepest limit was 300 ft. at that time? Their _choice_ may
have been to set them at 300 ft. but I've never seen any evidence
claiming that was an engineered limit. Lockwoods reply to May's aide
was "they're... setting them... deeper now." Right after the leak.
With his knowledge at the time, if they had to re-engineer the fuse it
would seem an odd phrase. Remember, May's comment was that the
Japanese were "setting their depth charges off too shallow."

BB

I guess everybody has some mountain to climb,
it's just fate whether you live in Tibet or Kansas...

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