Dude, who even knows.
![Guess I got some of the details wrong. But still!
(I dunno, that strike might be worse than an island strike. US carriers famously didn’t have armored decks [UK ones did] so a strike in the right place could go through to the hangar deck and set off...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm8wi7uSUt1qeywqoo1_500.jpg)
Guess I got some of the details wrong. But still!
(I dunno, that strike might be worse than an island strike. US carriers famously didn’t have armored decks [UK ones did] so a strike in the right place could go through to the hangar deck and set off the magazines. Especially on escort carriers, which this looks like.)
[Oh lookit me, adding paragraphs to prove I know stuff. I’m treading on dangerous ground, because Knowing Stuff About World War II is one of the major events on the Knowing Stuff circuit.]