F6F F4F WildCat & HellCat Crashes

[katrina]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmxh9RPjZUg

This is really something.....

 

[DustDevil]

Those guys had C.O.Jones,. don't know how else to put it. There weren't any alternate airfields to divert to, just their own postage stamp-size flight deck bobbing, pitching and rolling out in the middle of endless ocean, Low on or nearly out of fuel and maybe even low on blood. And sometimes, un-expended ordnance they couldn't shake off. Hand - SALUTE !