User blog comment:Void Samukai/Best WW1 and Best WW2 Battlecruiser/@comment-13740085-20160212151832/@comment-27822411-20160213005055

Well, that is if they could survive the attack. If your carrier is a smoking wreck and burning, then repairing it won't be that easy. An armoured deck, while harder to replace, allows better protection against bombs and can make the carrier survive the attack better so that it can be repaired. The Franklin was one such wooden deck carrier that almost was destroyed by a 2 bomb hits, if it weren't for the help and sheer luck nearby.

Another things about that though: you are saying that the US carriers fleet's AA can destroy waves of bombers, hold out aerial attacks, defend carriers from Japanese aircraft but couldn't hit a lone dive bomber?! Geez, even the Japanese could've shot that carrier before it could attack, and their AA is nowhere near as good XD