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- Season 1 The Boats of World War II
- Season 1 The Captains of World War II
- Season 1 The Torpedoes of World War II
- Season 1 Attack Plans of World War II
- Season 1 Wolfpack: U-Boats of World War II
- Season 1 Submarines of the Atlantic
- Season 1 Tracking the Enemy
- Season 1 Submarine Special Ops
- Season 1 Japanese Submarines
- Season 1 Submarines of Russia
- Season 1 Deterrence from the Deep
Silent Service - Season 1 Episode 3 The Torpedoes of World War II
0.00 48 minutes Only a few weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy experienced a failure of critical technology--the torpedoes that armed its fleet of submarines were defective. The ensuing debacle ranks as one of the great near disasters of WWII. We'll see how the exigencies of war clashed with entrenched bureaucracies and egos of the naval ordnance establishment. After two years of frustration the submariners prevailed and with effective weapons went on to achieve remarkable results.
