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  1. An Alcoholic Hedgehog -- The Fairy Swordfish was very odd, who would have thought it could succeed, although it certainly had excellent torpedoes, it didn't look like a winner but it was one. If I was a gambling man back in the day I never would have bet on the Fair Swordfish, but it surprised everybody. It's Kinda like Cinderella.
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  2. TBD-1 wasn't all that bad in the beginning, but technology changed fast in the years leading up to war, and the TBD-1 was a pioneer in it's class. But it's kinda like the de Havilland Comet that showed Boeing and McDonald Douglas how to build airliners, de Havilland got left behind to sort out the new design parameters caused by cabin pressure and depressurization cycles. ~ Lieutenant Robert Laub's survival is amazing. No doubt a skilled, brave pilot, but a super fortunate man too, God bless him. ~ Japanese torpedoes were far better and more reliable, the Mark 14 was a joke, there was a "good ol boy" system operating between defense contractors and the Pentagon. It's all about money, and it's corrupt and nothing has changed since then. Fantastic analogy for the TBD-1 at the Battle of the Coral Sea, "it was like strolling through a bar room in the middle of a brawl and ordering your beverage of choice", that's great.
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  3. Maybe the best thing about the TBD-1 Devastator was it provided Grumman a bench mark which to improve upon for the TBF Avenger design, it was an evolutionary design step that would lead toward the newer Avenger torpedo bomber.
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