Army Air Force pilots learn about Navy torpedoes — WWII training film !

bombers carry Torpedoes and carry them at very high speeds so you see what we've got in store for you but this is where you get off at against all your gold braid we're betting a single gold bar second Lieutenant Douglas Walsh fresh out of flying school is just beginning to Bone up on the subject of torpedoes his instructors pointing out that while Doug doesn't service the torpedo it'll help him to know what it is and how it's carried now a torpedo must make a good clean entry into the water this is helped by the Plywood Air stabilizer which holds the torpedo tangent to its flight path this is the starting lanyard when the fish drops away this cord jerks the starting lever and things happen inside the stop bolt on the fuselage which fits into a hole in the midship section and the sway bracing hold the torpedo steady against the airplane the two steel cables fasten to regular bomb shackles in the bomb bay the cables are released from opposite