Comments by "Katy" (@KatyushaLauncher) on "Operation Ten-Go - The bigger they come, the harder they fall" video.
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@TheAirplaneDriver Mitchell demonstrated a concept that's so flawed, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell was a firm believer in airpower and that bombing could win a war all by itself. My own opinion is that he was wrong. He was so adamant that Battleships should be phased out and replace them with what exactly? Billy Mitchell was no fan of aircraft carriers either, indeed he believed that they would never be able to achieve the concentration of force that he thought necessary for success in a naval context, or any context for that matter.
Also, the methodologies used in the trial themselves was somewhat flawed in that all of the target ships were at anchor, and were incapable of defending themselves. Therefore conclusions reached as to the obsolescence, or not, of active battleships able to maneuver and fight back, have to be considered somewhat dubious. Certainly given the technology of the time. The aircraft used the drop the bombs that did all of the damage [and created so much of a political storm between the Army, of which the Air Corps was still a part, And the U.S. Navy’s] Was the Martin NBS1, Not, intrinsically, the sort of aircraft that you would think would be particularly survivable in contested air space. Plus, the bombing method uses the time were comparatively crude and there was still a fair amount of belief, certainly in naval circles, and battleships underway would be able to avoid bombs dropped towards them.
Hence this comic: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f7b079bf083ce0c93d3366324b0aa2bc
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