Re: OT: WWII carriers, was:FTFB- After Action Report/Newbie questions

Mikko Kurki-Suonio wrote:
snip...JTL
> Getting caught in range of enemy surface ships was result of
incredibly
> bad luck, and happened only on a couple of occasion during the war
(Leyte
> and Scharnhorst & Gneisenau plugging the oddly planeless Glorious off
> the coast of Norway).

     The Glorious was not pladeless, in fact it had the opposite
problem, far too many planes on the deck.   It had been recovering
hurricanes from Norway and had no space to load or launch its normal
aircraft.   (It also had no time, but that is a different problem.)

Bye for now,
John L.