Comments by "Gregory Wright" (@gregorywright4918) on "Carrier Night Actions in WW2 - What you can't see can still hurt you" video.

@JosipRadnik1 I think what he meant by "uncontested" was "no enemy fighters around"...
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Don't know if that qualifies - they took off before sunset, failed to find their target, and then failed to return to their carrier.
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@TDOBrandano The point of the tight beam vs an omnidirectional pulse is that it is much harder for an enemy snooper to track. I wonder if there was a range limitation as well, like you had to be within 20/40/?? miles of the carrier.
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Hmmm... but for that damaged radio... The flip side is that if you can find them, they have no night CAP, no night training for AA, and their night cruising formation is a vulnerable box that does not consider the possibility of radar guided night air attack. And if you could put a torpedo or two into half or more of the carriers, you don't really need to worry about the morning.
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@martijn9568 Again, though, the range extensions often come from reflection off the ionosphere, which might affect omni-directional signals but less so the directional beacons.
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