| Despite what Harvey says, I'm sure more ships were sunk, at least in the open sea, by dive bombers than by level bombers. Hermes, Cornwall and Dorsetshire by Aichi D3A Vals for a start, to say nothing of Pearl Harbour, and PoW and Repulse - and Yamato, later, by a combination of torpedo and dive bombing.
It was air-to-ground rockets that made the dive-bomber redundant. |