Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20160120002952

CaptainCoxwaggle wrote: What is the name of this "best naval scholar in your country" also what country are you refering to? He is being quite misleading.

I'm from Taiwan and he is usually known as K大 in Chinese. He is the authority source.

You need to correct almost everything you learned.

Japanese reserve planes are disassembled, this can be found almost everywhere.

At least most Japanese hangars are extra structure outside/above the hull, just find any photo of any Japanese carrier and you can see it clearly. They even have the likes of Akagi and Kaga who started as battlecruisers/battleships, whose hull is simply not big enough/tall enough to contain a hangar.

Hiryu's air squad on Midway was at most 21/18/18, total 57 (from battle records on the airstrike on Midway island, that is, before any losses were made, it could even be 18/18/18, total 54). Either way, as she did carry 21/18/18 in Pearl Harbor, her capacity should be considered as 57. She never carried 60+ active planes. Not in plans, not in Pearl Harbor, not in Midway.

''"But all in all, I think historical evidence shows it best. Hiryuu, being the sole survivor at Midway and facing 3 enemy CVs managed to sink the Yorktown. During Santa Cruz, the IJN sank the USS Hornet with no loss of carriers." ''

Your cases only prove that in carrier warfare, the ability to strike first is more important than sheer ship design/performance. Something the Americans already knew in exercises and simulations well before the war started.

Also, both Shoukaku and Hiyou were critically damaged by aircrafts before being finished by subs. If you cosider Yorktown as sunk by Hiryu instead of I-168, why would you consider these two as sunk by subs? You are comparing them under an unfair critiria.

You need to re-learn almost everything, I'm afraid.

And, I'll have to discontinue this discussion here. We are drifting away from the topic.