re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not unlike how we sank the Japanese carrier Taiho: a US submarine torpedoed it, but not fatally, but the hit fractured the aviation fuel tanks. An under-trained young officer activated the ventilation system, which spread the volatile fumes throughout the ship, whereupon they exploded and finished off the ship.

Contrast the Americans on the Yorktown, who almost saved the ship with their damage-control efforts before a Japanese sub showed up and sank the destroyer carrying the repair crew, further damaging the carrier and causing her to eventually sink.