Bombing the seaplane base damages aircraft support

Bombs landed among the seaplane base's hangars and storehouses, starting fires and damaging the facilities needed to keep aircraft flying. Two seaplanes burned out. The damage to stores mattered even where an aircraft itself escaped destruction, because maintenance and preparation for the next day's flying depended on those supplies. The possibility that maintainers or storekeepers were still working is raised, without establishing casualties among them. A comparison with Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor's airfields connects such damage with reducing reconnaissance and counterattack capacity.