Tag: Torpedo

• Torpedo Juice

  

  During WWII, US Navy torpedos were fuelled on 180 proof grain alcohol. So were the sailors.  The torpedos had an easier time stomaching the stuff. Alcohol was (and is) more-or-less banned on Navy ships, and the higher-ups employed dastardly stratagems to keep the high-proof fuel out of the sailors’ bloodstreams. Early on, They spiked the […]

  mjhorn

  January 4, 2018

  Cocktail/mixed, V

  Grain alcohol, Howie Surd, Navy, Torpedo