Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "USS Franklin - Surviving a Comet Strike" video.

I would dispute the "put most any other carrier on the bottom" bit - had one of the RN's armored carriers been in Franklin's place, she likely would've shrugged off the hit with few casualties (remember that the bomb that hit Franklin's armor deck bounced clean off - it's just that, after that bounce, it was in the middle of a hangar full of things that liked to go BOOM). To flip that around, the Essexes were fortunate to have never have had to face Fliegerkorps X - that encounter would've likely resulted in a very dead carrier.
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@milferdjones2573 Apparently it's unknown whether the attacking Judy actually escaped or was shot down by one of the other ships in the formation.
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@Talguy21 Ah. Agreed.
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