Talk:Vultee Vengeance in Australian service

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Dive bombing was inefficient?[edit]

The article says: "other Allied air forces' experiences had demonstrated that dive bombing was an inefficient tactic"

I'm not so sure about that. It seems to reflect RAF pre-war doctrine that dive bombing didn't work, so the British regarded it with disdain throughout the war, while the American, German, Japanese and Russian air forces were using it with very great effect.

The Battle of Midway is a good case study. The Americans used high altitude heavy bombers which hit nothing at all (I don't think a high altitude heavy bomber ever hit a ship in the entire course of the war), torpedo bombers which did minor damage, and dive bombers which sank four aircraft carriers. In all, five aircraft carriers were sunk that day, all by dive bombers. Inefficient is not the word that forms in my mind. Peter Bell (talk) 09:31, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]