... Finally, and retail - as we shall see - is important, departures of the sixteen B-25 will take place in less than an hour For obvious reasons, the Navy is indeed refuses to expose its longer irreplaceable aircraft carrier in waters infested with Japanese vessels are also three to four times greater in number.
practice, this leaves about three minutes on each unit to get into position, make final checks, put the engine at full throttle and take off.
Three minutes may seem long now, but back then, and with the big radial engines of the moment, it is indeed a challenge ... and challenge all the more reassuring that person, or in aircraft or on the deck, will have time to "do the mechanics," let alone to push the aircraft away on time to make a Repair: If the aircraft fails to take off at once and within the time limit, the Marine Hornets have just been instructed to take the plunge to free space for the next one!
again the success of this insane plan assumes that she is arrive at a suitable distance to approach the Japanese coast, without being previously detected by an enemy who, having himself mounted a similar operation against Pearl Harbor, should, logically, have taken steps to avoid each other to suffer such a fate in turn ...
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