Hi. I just thought maybe DBs bombs should do more damage next to than on the ship. I study WWII Naval Tactics a lot, and the best way to sink a Battleship, or anything for that matter, is to drop the bomb in the water NOT on the ship. For some flat-tops, the bomb will go through the aeroplane lift, but that's hard to do and the explosion in the water will do waterline damage, flooding the ship. Even in the early days of naval bombing (Billy Mitchell's test-sinking of the Ostfriesland- google "billy mitchell sinks the ships") it was acknowledged that a bomb to the ship will do contact damage, (part of the same issue I take when I say they should reverse the role of HE and AP shells) the hole in the hull will make them TAKE ON ACTUAL WATER which is necessary for the ship to sink. A bomb hit to the deck just makes a fire which can easily be put out-- Look, there's water everywhere! Ships had pumps for damage control. (I won't get too far into that.) But please consider what I have said, you can look it up. Maybe the DBs dropped bombs should do torp damage when near missed?
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