[bert]

......It proved that all the bells and whistles you have in combat systems still has to be backed up by excellent damage control procedures in the worst case senario.......

The pretty much total absence of damage control ability lost the Battle of Midway for the Japanese. for a lengthy review and revision to the erronous settled history, read Shattered Sword The untold story of the battle of Midway

http://shatteredswordbook.com/

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The pretty much total absence of damage control ability lost the Battle of Midway for the Japanese."

You got that right, on the U.S. side we did such a good job with damage control on the Yorktown. The Japanese thought they sunk it at the battle of Corral Sea. We get it back to Pearl and got it underway in time for the Battle of Midway. At Midway, the Japanese hit it again and it was on fire. They thought they sunk it again. We put it out the fires and got it operational and underway so well that the Japanese planes thought it was a different ship on another pass and attacked it again eventually sinking it. They never dreamed that anyone could get a ship repaired and underway like we did after Corral Sea and at Midway.