technology has made that type of daring mission, where anything goes, a thing of history.
Only now do I really get how improvised the whole thing was. Flying large bombers off of an aircraft carrier that we couldn’t afford to lose, after a massive lose of our ships, that wasn’t designed for planes that big, that close to a naval superpower’s homeland, to just get some licks in for image sake? To then instruct the crews of those planes to make it to safety wherever they can because there is no backup?
That is just legend right there.
I wonder if they had known about nitrous back then and would it have made a difference?