One in which the RN could do best was their great support of the Okinawa landings April-May '45 against potential airstrike/Kamikaze staging...
Better? Perhaps only because the USN was concentrating on other targets in other areas, but the RN became extremely effective in the Indonesia...
"US ships were also capable of shaking of kamikazw damage and returning to operations quickly." Carriers???????? April-May1945: All the...
Yes, it is referring to the smoldering bits of meat, eyeballs, whatever, that remained after the Kamikaze bounced off the 3" armor; a great...
Hello - Actually, I am thinking of Illustrious-class armored Carriers, specifically in the context of the operations in the British Pacific...
U.S.S. Princeton CVL and one Judy dive-bomber. Or Hancock, or Franklin; HMS Formidable back in action within the hour after Kamikaze hit....
Here's one for you - What were wwII British Carrier crew referring to when they spoke of "bacon"?
and U.S.S. Hancock was "seriously hurt by a suicide plane on 7 April, while supporting the Okinawa operation, suffering the loss of 62 crewmen...
Hancock was "seriously hurt by a suicide plane on 7 April, while supporting the Okinawa operation, suffering the loss of 62 crewmen killed and...
"The British carriers were more vulnerable to kamikazes than American carriers" ???????????
"By my calculations, 25% of carriers with flight deck armor sank during the war, while 19.4% of carriers without flight deck armor sank."...
McRis wrote: "Except Okinawa, and the occasions mentioned before, did the RN fight in cooperation with the USN in the Pacific?" ----------------...
McRis wrote: "Except Okinawa, and the occasions mentioned before, did the RN fight in cooperation with the USN in the Pacific?" ---------------...
Due to the armored flight deck, the height of the ship deck-to-water had to be lower, with corresponding lower hangar height. On Indomitable,...
Yes the side armor was intended for protection from cruiser gunfire; I don't know of any incidents where gun hits were scored against these ships
Oops what I should have said was that I would have liked to have covered aircraft accomodations (as on KGV etc) instead of storing the aircraft...
Thanks very much for the replies; the main air complement I have read about was Wildcats/Avengers i.e. Samar battle, against Japanese heavy cruisers.
I referred to the armored sides of the British CV's; the armored deck of the Illustrious class was for operations within range of land-based...
Yes Illustrious took a lot of damage from Stukas early in the war, and still steamed away, and it took bomb hits, not Kamikazes. One description...
I am more familiar with CVE's used in British service; this involved different types of airgroups: 1. A composite group of say 10 Hellcats + 4...
