And of course trying that in the game will get you one-pinged to the tower by the manned guns from 5000 yards.
Well maybe if we got IJN CV groups it would be different.
Also I dont believe the Naval versions of the B25s flew alone so attacks from different sides would lower the hazards, tho it was still dangerous and we did lose a lot of bombers. Im trying to remember the IJN troop transport convoy that was literally slaughtered by PBJ-1s of the USN. If I remember right the convoy was also hit by our allies in Beaufighters and what not.
That was it! The Battle of the Bismark Sea.
http://www.airvectors.net/avb25.html While prewar US air combat doctrine emphasized medium or high altitude bombing attacks on shipping, experience had shown that approach to be ineffective. Kenney's aircrews instead developed a new scheme known as "skip bombing", in which a B-25 came in low over the water, spraying the target with its nose guns to wipe out enemy gunners, and then released a bomb with a time-delay fuze to skip over the water and slam into the target, exploding after the bomber had made its getaway. Skip-bombing was dangerous, since the attacker had to fly into the teeth of a ship's flak at such low level that there were cases of bombers striking the ship's mast. The bomb could even skip back up and hit the bomber.
However, skip bombing was also murderously effective. This was proven in early March 1943, when the Japanese attempted to ship 7,000 troops in a convoy from their major base at Rabaul in New Britain to Lae in New Guinea. The Japanese did not have air superiority, but they hoped bad weather would protect the convoy, which consisted of about eight transports and eight destroyers.
The convoy was spotted on 1 March, and was attacked by B-17s the next day. The Fortresses claimed several hits. On 3 March, the convoy was attacked by everything the Allies had: Fortresses, Bristol Beaufighters, and skip-bombing A-20s and B-25s. The result was a massacre, with ships blasted and sunk while the attackers mercilessly strafed the survivors in the water. All eight transports and four destroyers were sunk, and only about 800 Japanese soldiers made it to Lae. More than 3,600 were killed, at a loss to the Allies of 13 dead and 12 wounded. The Japanese still alive after the slaughter were ferried back to Rabaul on surviving destroyers. The "Battle of the Bismarck Sea", as it would be known, was a dramatic demonstration of air power.
Of course our CV groups are modeled on the USN Essex class groups. They had the best AA in the world at the time, tho the Brit CVs were probably tougher.
