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Many bombs, shells, and torpedoes of all armies and navies failed to explode. Sometimes they hit surfaces too soft to cause the firing pin to strike. Sometimes water got into the powder or primer. Sometimes they had timers and the clocks or batteries broke when the bomb landed. In one case, Japanese gunners failed to sink an American light carrier when they hit it with huge shells because the shells were intended for armored steel targets like battleships. The thin deck of the carrier let the shells pass right through.
Japanese shells and bombs were often made by slave labor working in very bad conditions. Some defective devices were expected.
American torpedoes were notoriously defective. The firing pins used for the first half of the war did not work over half the time.
German timed bombs used over London often failed because the battery and clock circuits shorted or jammed.
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