Some footage from The Bridges at Toko-Ri:
It's hard to overstate how hazardous naval aviation was back in the early jet age, even without a shooting war. The carrier decks were relatively short and were built for piston-powered airplanes. It was not uncommon for air wings to lose 20% of their pilots during a cruise.
Not that it's not hazardous anyway, as the crash of Ranger-12 showed.
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