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Old 10-18-13, 11:16 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Dread Knot View Post
They may have realized their error when a blabbermouth Congressmen from Kentucky named Andrew J. May blurted out at a press conference, that the Japanese were setting their charges too shallow, after a congressional junket to the Pacific Theater . The Japanese apparently read the papers that day, although they often missed other US intelligence leaks. A good reason why all congressional junkets even in the present day should be curtailed.

The Japanese set their charges that shallow, because they used their own submarines test depths as a measure. Surely they had the deepest diving subs? A good indication of some of the closed loop thinking in the IJN.
We get it you don't like May at all. I don't like the idiot either but I don't go shouting it out at every opportunity I get.
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