Destroying a carrier differs from disabling its flight deck. Repeated kamikaze attacks could send American carriers home for repair after a single damaging hit, progressively reducing the fleet's usable air power even when the hulls survived. British carriers and the new Midway class offered greater resistance because their armored flight decks also formed part of the strength deck, though they were not invulnerable.
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Why kamikazes threatened carrier availability more than sinkings
The invasion-of-Japan discussion explains why one kamikaze hit could remove an American carrier from the campaign even when it did not sink the ship.