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#OTD in 1943, the destroyer USS William D. Porter accidentally launched a live torpedo at the USS Iowa which was carrying President Franklin Roosevelt to the Tehran Conference. The Iowa avoided disaster by making a hard turn. The torpedo detonated after hitting the ship's wake. The entire crew was arrested and a young sailor later admitted that he had forgotten to remove the primer from a torpedo tube during a drill. The sailor was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor but FDR ordered that no crew members be punished. After the incident, other ships would greet the William D. Porter with "Don’t shoot! We’re Republicans!"
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