Yea verily, and not stealing your thunder, but Col. Jimmy Doolittle trained the B-25 "bomber" not fighter pilots that made the carrier Hornet's take-off (twin engine bombers loaded with fuel and a few incendiary bombs) for the "30 Seconds over Tokyo" raid, early in 1942 as a morale booster for those of us in the USA, down at Eglin AFB, Florida.
The pilots were required to do a takeoff roll in an extremely short distance, marked on the runway. Obviously secrecy kept them from knowing their fate. Course the difference in this training and reality, other than the early launch which was disastrous, was that the carrier was steaming at roughly 30 knots into a 30+ mph wind. With a "rotation" speed of just over 100 mph this took a lot of pain out of the fantastic feat.....taking Army twin engine bombers off the deck of a carrier when half the deck was filled with aircraft.
As history writes, Adm. Bull Halsey was in command of the Hornet and associated task force. Personally, after reviewing this decision of his to launch early and later mis-directed (opinion) operations in Lete Gulf just to name a couple, I personally question his qualifications. But who am I to judge. Well I am a 9 year veteran and repeatedly questioned the rationale of decisions made by my commanders that had/could have had a significant impact on my life and my later ability to function. One reason I bailed out after 9 years of service to my country.
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