It wasn't just ferry flights across the Atlantic - on most of the B-29 missions in the Pacific, from Guam or Tinian, the P-51 and P-47 escorts flew with the bombers for the same reason, or met up with them near Iwo Jima. Besides, fighter jocks are too busy looking for things to shoot up to worry about the minor detail of where they are in over the vast, trackless ocean. <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />