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Default Re: Yorktown doesn't make "Point Luck"

Well,

The PT's in the Pacific were for the most part never very successful with torpedo attacks against large enemy warships, three out of four fish would not detonate which were launched from the early boats, or those early torpedoes would run wild in circles, or catch fire in the tube.

They did run up quite a score against jap landing barges, mostly by gunfire.
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