>The hubris of the “battleship Navy” was such that just nine days before Pearl Harbor, the official program for the 1941 Army-Navy game displayed a full page ph

>The hubris of the “battleship Navy” was such that just nine days before Pearl Harbor, the official program for the 1941 Army-Navy game displayed a full page photograph of the battleship USS Arizona with language virtually extolling its invincibility. >Of course, the reason that no one had yet sunk a battleship from the air — in combat — was that no one had yet tried. This is why I can't trust anything from War is Boring. They have too many obvious factual errors, to the point that you wonder if the author has any familiarity with the subject. The British carrier HMS Illustrious made an air-only attack on the Italian fleet in November of 1940, damaging two battleships that were saved only by grounding and sinking a third.