Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "IJN Tone - Guide 076" video.

  1. The reasoning was: since the carriers need surface escorts anyway (to augment AAA and protect from submarine or surface attacks during the night or bad weather when planes could not fly), so why waste some of your carrier strike force on scouting when you have floatplanes on the escorting cruisers and fast battleships? Of course the critical question was just how many scout planes is sufficient. Also using strike planes for scouting paid nice dividends for the USN when a scouting pair of SBDs discovered and taking initiative immediately proceeded to attack and damage the Japanese light carrier Zuiho at the opening stages of the Battle of Santa Cruz forcing her to retire from the battle.
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  2. Fun fact "tone" means "(she is) sinking" in Serbian, yet ironically, unlike almost the entire IJN, she survived almost the entire war and was only sunk in the shallow harbor of Kure at the end of the war (she was potentially salvageable).
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