Comments by "Patrick Donnolley" (@ph89787) on "The evolution of the carrier air wing in the Pacific from Pearl Harbour to Santa Cruz" video.

  1. I should point out Drach that by the time of Pearl Harbour. That both Nakajima and Douglas ( the manufacturers of the Kate and Devastator, respectively) had stopped production of them.
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  2. Animarchy finishing his Enterprise series and this video. It has been a good week.
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  3. Adding onto that. Wasn’t the F6F Hellcat and SB2C Helldiver able to carry a Mark 13 Torpedo as well?
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  4. Bit more than that. She started with 15. But Kinkaid on October 25 1942 had an afternoon sighting report of the Japanese carriers. He launched a strike, they didn’t find the carriers and some were lost in accidents or ditching.
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  5. And in the case of Enterprise. They double as AA guns.
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  6. More or less the same success rate.
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  7.  @rogersmith7396  In the early war the Mark 13 sucked about as much as the Mark 14. Although weirdly, it seemed to have a better success rate on PT-Boats than on aircraft.
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  8. Speaking of Air Group 19. They would have returned home on Enterprise. When she was recalled to Pearl Harbour to be converted to night operations
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  9.  @rayschoch5882  and took on Enterprise’s Air Group 20
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  10.  @douglambert990  Not named Yamato. But TF 58 corrected that. Although with the night air groups aboard Enterprise and Saratoga, they did away with the dive bombers and kept the Hellcats and Avengers
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  11. On the other hand unlike what Nakajima was doing with the B6N "Jill",. Grumman had debuted the Avenger in December 1941 and had them ready to go in large numbers (VT-8 detachment aside). By the middle of 1942.
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