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Which support ships? Destroyers, adjusted for the weight simply couldn't compete, due to the lack proximity fuses, cruisers could perhaps compete, but usually didn't have as good fire control facilities. To stop a kamikaze, who got through the fighter screen, from reaching the carriers, the best...

It depends, US battleships were upgraded through the war as rather brutal AAA platforms, especially once the proximity fuses were developed, as they could carry considerable number of centrally controlled guns firing these kinds of shells.

Everybody was doing it during the war, either by amplifying the deeds of actual heroes or inventing new ones.

It took multiple bomb hits and Soviets considered a Ju-88 to have dropped the one that hit the magazine, so it's more likely that Germans attributed it to their propaganda darling for propaganda reasons.

However, that many shotdowns were on 3000+ sorties, so he certainly had a better shotdown per sortie rate than 8th air force, for example.

He had a fighter squadron escorting him on all sorties from 1943 on. Still, he go shot down twenty times by AA defenses, losing his leg in the Visla-Odra offensive, still got back in fight in the last days of war. German cruisers were not good AAA platforms, but Soviet anti-ship work was poor...

And no one used dive bombers in ground campaigns at the end of war. I wonder why.

Pe-2 also didn't take the stress of dive bombing too well Only if you remove RAF, Fleet air and anti-aircraft defense, while magically increasing the skills of Italian aviators.

Dive bombers are not a magic win buttons, you need pilots specially trained in this mode of bombing and a developed doctrine for their use. People often overlook the fact that Stukas were only part of the Luftwaffe/Wehrmacht cooperation plan, they had forward air controlers to call in the...