Effective use of the Mk27 Cutie

[Stealhead]

The Japanese where not the only ones that mistook sinkings.We at first in the Coral Sea thought that we had sunk a full size carrier which was not the case.This is the nature of the fog of war no nation during war is willing to let its capacity be known so you have to rely on what you intel you have and what see or think you see sometimes pilots can get over excited in the heat of battle and think they attacked something other than what they in fact did or over estimate the damage they did.Hell a Japanese pilot got confused during the Coral Sea battle and attempted to land on the Yorktown!! the Yorktown's crew also thought it was a friendly plane that was about to land until it very close I assume that pilot got rather surprised when he saw AA fire come up at him.

We got very lucky at Midway to be honest the Japanese had damaged the Yorktown pretty well at Coral Sea and rightly expected it to be out of action for some time they underestimated our need for aircraft carriers.It turns out that we did major repairs on her in a short time(24 hours I think) not enough to be like new but enough to operate at the battle of Midway.Many people in hindsight forget that a wars out come is unknown until it actually happens.WE defeated the Japanese Navy soundly in WWII but had done very little to the majority of its ground forces and the Japanese showed at Iwo Jima and Okinawa that each battle was going to be more and more costly for the US so it is good that the war ended without having to invade the main Japanese islands the outcome may have been different.(it might not have been an unconditional surrender)

The Battle of Leyte Gulf is another battle that we got lucky with as well maybe even more so than at Midway.

Few people know that the US government did not make public the full extent of the damage incurred during Pearl Harbor because they where concerned that the truth would cause panic.During WWII few nations where fully truthful about certain events because of the need to maintain public support.This is why sinking reports of US subs where not publicly known for several months mainly because enemy agents could have fond this data useful if it was known to be very fresh which is another reason for media control.