Talk:Zuikaku/@comment-140.112.5.4-20150614135137

≥Moderately damaged is mistakenly translated.

" 私がここまで被弾するなんて！" means "And I got hit like this hard!"

not " And I got this far without being hit, too!"

Also, Out-range tactics is somewhat unrelated to "turkey shoot",

the problem of Out-range tactic is that due to navigation issues, out-ranging (launching attacker squad too early, typically >500km from target fleet) causes low chance of meeting the target fleet, and higher risk of gettling lost, unable to return to carrier. (Which was already suggested by pilots back then, but the commander insists to go on, because larger operational radius is the one biggest advantage, probably the only one, that IJN planes have at that time)

Turkey shoot, on the other hand, is due to IJN's huge loss of pilots in 1942-1943 that leads to very low pilot quality in 1944 onwards. So low that they eventually decided not to teach them how to land a plane or properly drop a bomb (hence Kamikaze)