A couple battleships within 10 miles could have made transit pretty hairy.
Hmmm. Good point. You know, I read in yesterday’s post that an allied vessel was roaming around the strait but it wasn’t clear to me what it was doing - it apparently met little resistance
A couple battle ships within 10 miles would have been blown out of the water. The amount air cover needed to keep those battleships safe would go up a lot for ever mile closer to the enemy concentration. In their back yard we would not have been able to keep the diver bombers off them.