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Who gets the blame for the Mark 14 torpedo?

The Bureau of Ordnance receives the blame in a joking proposal to bring its personnel face to face with King and submarine commander Mush Morton.

Question

Who needed to be replaced to get the Mark 14 torpedo working early in the Second World War?

Short answer

Most of the Bureau of Ordnance is blamed, with King and Mush Morton invoked as imagined sources of pressure. No specific replacement list is given.

Notes

Most of the Bureau of Ordnance is the target of this angry, joking answer about who should have been replaced. King and Mush Morton are imagined confronting its personnel, with Nimitz cheering them on. The exchange assigns institutional blame without identifying particular officials or explaining the torpedo's defects.