You're Stuck Up There, You Can't Write to Anybody to Tell Them What You're Doing

We tried to work out how 20 aircraft in formation could attack a 650 foot wide ship with bombs that bounced. Because by then the water would be so turbulent. That those bouncing bombs would fear off in any one, any direction. So how you would do it was never fully accomplished. We never had 20 aircraft to do the operation. Time went on, we heard on the radio that another squadron had attacked the mone dams,. The first indication that we had that as another squadron called six, one seven. Up till then, we had no knowledge of it. Whatever. You're stuck up there. You can't write to anybody to tell them what you're doing. And you're contemplating