Twice I have seen unexplained damage to ships.
Once when I was about 5 miles out from Midway heading in I saw smoke. When I got closer I saw it was a PT boat on fire. Don't know how it happened. After a bit he came down past me off my starboard side as to look me over. Still on fire but acted like he hadn't a care in the world.
The other time involved a Japanese destroyer off the coast of China. I had gone deep to hide after a strike on the convey and was checking out things topside with the EV camera. I heard an explosion and one of the destroyers had suffered damage, fire was just forward the depthcharge racks. I thought maybe he took a hit from an H8K as they aren't exactly on the nose a lot of time with their high-level drops. He acted only slightly shook up, later when all had left he was still in the area either trying to find me or lost alltogether. I don't recall having any H8K's in the area, just a Betty that dropped a load that wasn't even close.
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