Talk:FM-2/@comment-28439911-20180128034806/@comment-25459687-20180129134739

The Taffy carriers at Samar didn't even HAVE torpedos. They were there for close support of the landing forces, so only had HE bombs. No torps, no AP bombs. They were spectacularly ill-equiped to deal with warships, espacially battleships. Didn't stop the pilots from throwing everything they had at the Japanese force, and even throwing nothing. Some of the planes didn't even have machine gun ammo loaded, so they made distraction runs to cover the planes that did have ordinance.