Lightening, would a carrier be able to have the same launch resources at the end of a tour with supplies runing low and the planes worn down as is the crew?
It wouldn't be constant . . . but there wouldn't be an extreme amount of variation. The crews aboard American carriers were incredile. As an example, over Iwo Jima the Enterprise kept planes in the air for a continuous 175 hours.
Yea there are some really interesting things to read about carrier ops... Some really unreal people doing an impossible job...
A carriers hanger bay was filled with some of the best mechanics in the world... Aircraft readiness was very high throughout a whole combat cruise...
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and they became very good at removing chrashed planes off the deck and putting out fires quickly, they had to to get the next plane down.................
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