There is a painting at Fort Gordon of Cher Ami. The famous carrier pigeon that saved the lost battalion from U. S. Artillery.Another amazing story is THE LOST Battilion WW1 these guys were men my grandfather was with them the 77 NY
Taking off in a loaded bomber off an aircraft carrier deck was an amazing feat. Those guys are the real heroes.
One crew was captured and executed in Japan.Especially when you consider it was NOT designed
for ship work.
Some of them landed in China..
A bunch didn't make it.
Hero's ALL!!
I read the book and it was great.Great old movie floating around started Spencer Tracy named 30 seconds over tokyo the object of the mission was to drop bombs and beat it to china to crash land the planes and be hidden by the China forces look it up
Now those guys were some COWBOYS I tried for 20 years to get a Beachcraft off the ground in 600 ft from a standing stop Could never even get close They did it with fully loaded bombers
They don't make them like that anymore !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!