NOTES AND COMMENTS
BOMB, TORPEDO OR GUN Concerning the relation of air power to sea power, Captain Bernard Acworth makes an instructive, although by no means conclusive, comparison in a paragraph of liis new pamphlet, "How the War Will Be Won." An example of the relative merits of the gun, the torpedo and the bomb, he writes, was afforded in the attacks on three of our great aircraft-carriers, the Ark Royal, the Courageous and the Glorious. The Ark Royal, subjected to bombing attack in the first few weeks of the war, and subsequently to intensive attack for many days off the Norwegian coast, escaped unscathed, notwithstanding the enormous target for bombers which she presents. The Courageous sank almost instantly when torpedoed, and the Glorious was shattered and sunk by the guns of a surface ship.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23780, 7 October 1940, Page 6
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