Editing American WWII Military Equipment (section)

==Ships==
The American Navy was and remains the greatest force to sail the seas and World War 2 was when this got confirmed as Japan got a massive beatdown.
===Aircraft Carriers===
===Battleships===
===Cruisers===
===Destroyers===
===Submarines===
===Misc===
* '''Mark 14 torpedo''': Yah this thing gets its own entry. You could make half hour long videos on this pile of utter utter shit ([https://youtu.be/eQ5Ru7Zu_1I Drachinifel gets a shout out]), but to be brief: it had four issue, 1) it ran too deep due a bunch of reasons, 2) it's magnetic detonator was too sensitive. The earth's magnetic field is not the same everywhere so if you have your detonator calibrated to work where you are, it might not work where the torpdeo is going to be. 3) it's back up contact detonator didn't work either. 4) it's gyro didn't work all the time and sometimes it would run in a circle rather then in a line and so would sometimes. . .[[Not as planned|return to sender]]. These issues were obvious but because the Navy in the depression had no money there was never any testing done to figure the issues out and when the war started they [[Administratum|refused to acknowledge there was a problem with this Abaddon reincarnated as a torpedo shaped disaster]]. Needless to say, it almost ''never'' worked without the crews [[Heretek|cutting it up and fixing it or using absurd workarounds]] until Admiral King, who already had a bone to pick with the Bureau of Ordnance, got informed personally and had a few words with the arrogant bastards, and even then it took the navy shop people replacing the firing pins by hand to get it to work: but work it did. After 1943 it turned out that it was a functional torpedo after all and Japanese ships started to sink properly and by the war half of all Japanese shipping had been sunk by Submarine, with the Mark 14. In fact during the war so many mark 14's were made they didn't end up officially leave service for almost 40 years.