USN High-Pressure Steam: A Successful Detriment? | A Portholes Podcast Special ft.

In this special episode, we are joined again by guests Drachinifel and Rick Russell (Bearing Straight) to discuss whether the US Navy's adoption of high-steam propulsion plants during the 1930s and for the Two-Ocean Navy was the tactical, technological, and bureaucratic success that its advocates and some historians have portrayed it. Did the US Navy succeed in the war against Japan despite its high-steam propulsion systems rather than because of them? There's a lot to unpack regarding the US Navy's adoption of a novel technology on the eve of war, so full steam ahead!
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