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A battlecruiser Incomparable fighting Kido Butai

The first answer treats Incomparable as a battlecruiser and asks what happened to the other Japanese carrier divisions.

Question

How would Incomparable be remembered if she went down fighting Kido Butai after destroying its Second Carrier Division?

Short answer

On the initial battlecruiser interpretation, destroying the carriers while under air attack would be an extraordinary achievement.

Notes

The initial answer treats Incomparable as a battlecruiser reaching Japanese carriers while their aircraft attack her. Destroying the Second Carrier Division under those conditions would be an extraordinary achievement. The action also raises the question of what happened to the other carrier divisions. Their absence remains unexplained within this version of the hypothetical battle.