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I'm jealous

Shoot me an email and I can send you a copy of the B-29 Erection and Maintenance manual you can have for free! (It's 198 Mb. and too large to upload to this site.) Cheers! Steve Billings [email protected]

I'm not discounting the abilities of floatplanes to carry on the war. I was just wondering if any "scrambled" off their assigned ships to successfully defend (through combat) the ship from allied aircraft attacking or threatening them.

What I mean is, were any ship-borne floatplanes (those based on capital ships like battleships, cruisers, seaplane tenders, etc.) in the Imperial Japanese Navy ever able to defend their mother ships from attacks by enemy aircraft? Were they ever able to be launched before their ship was...