Re: [FT] Yet Another Fighters Suggestion

> If you take WW2 as an analogy, then the most massive airstrike
> AFAIK on a single target was that on the Japanese Battleship
> Musashi, the last attack involving 33 aircraft, attacking
> over 45 minutes. (Source : Dive Bomber  by Peter C Smith)
> 
> Wave 1 : 12 (from Intrepid and Cabot)
> Wave 2 : 12 (from Intrepid and Cabot, starting after 1st wave)
> Wave 3 : 20 (from Essex and Lexington)
> Wave 4 : 33 ( from Enterprise, Cabot, Franklin, Intrepid)

The one on Tirpitz was in some ways more impressive:
2 waves of 21 aircraft each, the first attack all dropping their
bombs in the space of 1 minute (!)

Of course the second wave then attacked half an hour later,
it took them that long to get organised and have the first
wave clear the area.