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To: reg45

Could that be described as ‘combat’ though? Its not really that hard to torpedo a stationary ship in port. Its a whole other issue to try and do it at sea when it is zig-zagging and your plane is facing anti-aircraft gunners from the ship and its escort at full battle stations.


19 posted on 05/30/2015 9:26:19 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
Taranto was a smaller scale Pearl Harbor.

Two days after Pearl Harbor, the Force Z battleships, Prince of Wales and Repulse, were sunk off the coast of Vietnam by Japanese aircraft. Proving, beyond any doubt, the vulnerability of capital ships to air attack.

43 posted on 05/30/2015 5:41:54 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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