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Why Devastator flew SLOWER than biplanes

In 1937, the U.S. Navy built the most advanced carrier aircraft on Earth - all-metal, enclosed cockpit, hydraulic folding wings, faster than anything on a flight deck. Five years later, at Midway, forty-one of them flew straight into Japanese guns at fifty feet, locked at a speed slower than a canvas biplane trainer. Thirty-five never came back. Sixty-seven men gone in one morning. Zero torpedo hits. The easy answer is "obsolete plane" - except brand-new replacements attacked the same fleet that same day and died just as fast, just as uselessly. #TBDDevastator #Mark13Torpedo #BattleOfMidway