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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
I know the plan fell through on the day but are you saying that gunfire from capital ships (which were designed to deliver plunging fire on to heavily armoured moving structures - viz. other capital ships - were they not?) wouldn't have been a suitable means of destroying a heavily armoured static structure like a bunker complex? Sounds pretty much ideal to me.
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Of course naval guns were effective and therefore ideal.
But you don't plan to get to Berlin by relying on gunfire from battleships, monitors and cruisers, which are only good for the first 15 miles. And on this occasion they were unavailable.
The army needed CAS every step of the way to Berlin, including the first small step for mankind. You can't take enemy positions without it.