RevRick
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Ace: I don't usually jump into this sort of ruckus, but this time I need to point out that your parsing of the sentence in question is in error. "It" is the direct object of the verb "made." What follows would appear to be an abortive attempt at an adverbial phrase intended to be used to modify the verb "made", but which uses a noun (misunderstanding) as the modifier, which can be done, but generally not very well. I taught English, and have written in the graduate level (Masters and Doctoral) and were I to have been grading that sentence, I would have found your sentence awkward at best. So, your great crime is that you fouled up on a sentence - that has been done by people before, and will be done by people later, and by me sometime in this post. I do not feel that the inquiry was directed toward your writing style or as a slight, but was directed toward a better understanding of what you were trying to say - and given the nature of the sentence in question, it is possibly understandable - as I hope I have demonstrated. The former anchor clanker in me would tell you not to jump salty. It generally ain't worth it, and you might find somebody saltier.
Now, so far as the damage to CV's - VB/VS types did substantial damage to surface ships, but unless there were other mitigating circumstances (such as the presence of armed and fueled aircraft on the flight deck, as at Midway), or unless a multitude of hits was obtained on the target, they were relatively ineffective against defended and protected (as in armored) ships. The old Navy addage was that "I'd rather let water in the bottom than air out the top." The IJN aircraft ships dreaded in 42-43 were the Kates.
Now, the Saratoga was withdrawn from service late in the war primarily because her elevators were not capable of handling the new generation of aircraft (physical dimensions as well as weight factors came into play,) and they were horribly placed. Enterprise, late in the war, took a bomb hit near the forward elevator which bulged her flight deck upward, and it was, IIRC, judged that she would not have been adequately repaired in time to resume combat operations, so she was withdrawn.
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