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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
Photographer    Unknown
Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Navy
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Photo Size 640 x 626 pixels
Photos at Same Place United States
Added By David Stubblebine
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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