How low can you get

Mid 50's. P2Vs, (Two turning, none burning). Numerous occasions leaving
propwash in water. Mining run exercise -- altitude maybe 5 feet. Three
planes in tight formation. Had to go up to get a wing down to spread out a
bit. No biggie. Navy seems to like water. Air Force jets looking for us
visually in this exercise. F-86 pilot: "I'm all the way down to 5000 feet."
Never saw us even knowing time of run. About noon. Bright daylight. Mined
Buckner Bay, Okinawa exactly perfectly. Really pleased with our performance
until I wondered what the Russians (then) could do on a dark and stormy night.

****. Hope interception is better now than then.

Friend's story. Tokio bay. Navy Privateers. Altitude maybe 5 feet. Goddam
difficult target for a fighter -- particularly when one considers a single
fighter can't make a decent pass at anything that low -- and at all times, in
and out, the fighter is looking at 13 distinctly hostile guns looking at him.