Did any Japanese airplanes ever try to land on U.S. aircraft carriers during WWII? What were the results, if any? - Quora
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In WW2, was there any case of a naval aviator coincidentally landing on a hostile aircraft carrier? - Quora
Did any Japanese airplanes ever try to land on U.S. aircraft carriers during WWII? What were the results, if any? - Quora
Landing on the Wrong Aircraft Carrier | In 1942, as the Japanese and the Americans returned from battle, a set of Japanese planes mistakenly tried to land on the USS Yorktown. A
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