Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 094" video.

  1. My take is the hit on Bismark that sealed it's fate was a golden BB, pure luck. The hits on Yorktown's boilers and Hornet's engines that left both of them dead on the water do not quite rise to that level, due to the size of the target area. The hit to Saratoga's electrical control room that ran the electric drive system is certainly another golden BB. In the case of both Bismark and Saratoga, even if the vulnerable spot was marked with a big X and a sign "Aim Here", the variabilities of torpedoes: estimating target speed, estimating range, target course changes, would make trying to hit such a small area futile.
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