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...British battleship . . . was ... hit between two forward turrets by a heavy caliber bomb. A half minute later a flame 500 meters [1,654 ft.] long appeared from the vessel, followed by thick smoke. When the smoke disappeared, nothing further of the vessel was seen except some floating debris...
...Another cruiser was also hit by a bomb and parts of the ship were thrown into...
...destroyers were hit and "a loaded transport ship of 12,000 tons was hit by a bomb and sunk...
Same day off Narvik "one battle cruiser got two hits and his guns were made inactive. One cruiser was set afire and a transport ship got a direct hit of a medium caliber bomb...
...simple arithmetic justified the British in calling the German bombers' boast of sinking a battleship "fantastic." Greatest terminal velocity ever achieved by an air bomb of best design is 700 ft. sec. That is about half the striking speed of a 12-inch armor-piercing coast guard rifle shell at close range. But air bombs are not armor-piercing. They explode on contact. To reach a Queen Elizabeth magazine from between the forward turrets (extremely lucky hit), a bomb would have to penetrate one unarmored deck, one 2-inch armor deck, another 1¼-inch armor deck, another...