... Washington, January 10 Under ordinary circumstances, the Admiral King would certainly have scoffed, then allegedly advised his interlocutor take a few weeks off.
But the circumstances are anything but ordinary: one month after the disaster of Pearl Harbour, and one week after the equally disastrous fall of Manila, one can even say that all ideas, including the most wacky, are now in good take, or at least consider.
On paper, that of Captain Francis Low at least has the merit of simplicity: since the single-engine Navy are too small for them to bomb Tokyo, and since the multi of the USAAF have no base close enough to Japan, why does not embed multi army and take off from aircraft carriers in the Navy? The four-engine
B-17 and B-24 are obviously too big for the flight deck of the Hornet and the Enterprise, but twin-engine vehicles such as B-18 , B-25 or B-26 could do the trick.
After consideration, the new twin-engine North American , the B-25 Mitchell apparently due to its smaller size, the better adapted to this strange mission, while a short calculation leads to think we could squeeze up to a fortnight on an aircraft carrier Hornet as .
obviously remains to resolve some "minor problems", as the obligation to increase the autonomy of the aircraft more than 50% and, more importantly, to reach the take off in a big hundred meters so that usual, it requires four or five times more!
also remains to find enough suicidal pilots to try their luck, and finally a sailor bold enough to bring all these people to the gates of Japan ..
B-17 and B-24 are obviously too big for the flight deck of the Hornet and the Enterprise, but twin-engine vehicles such as B-18 , B-25 or B-26 could do the trick.
After consideration, the new twin-engine North American , the B-25 Mitchell apparently due to its smaller size, the better adapted to this strange mission, while a short calculation leads to think we could squeeze up to a fortnight on an aircraft carrier Hornet as . obviously remains to resolve some "minor problems", as the obligation to increase the autonomy of the aircraft more than 50% and, more importantly, to reach the take off in a big hundred meters so that usual, it requires four or five times more!
also remains to find enough suicidal pilots to try their luck, and finally a sailor bold enough to bring all these people to the gates of Japan ..
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