Back in the early 70s I was in chuuk. Then known as truk. Some guys came to look for a missing japanese submarine. I was gone when they did locate it. But they had a lot of pictures of the bombing of chuuk. And yes, there were a lot of misses but there certainly were a good bit of hits also. Many ships were sunk. Into the 70s you could see the masts sticking out of the water.