Yup. Amazing stuff. And those early carriers had an inline flight deck unlike today where the flight deck is angled. Must have been a real panic to try and clear a deck of aircraft so you could recover inbound aircraft.
Absolutely.
I remember watching a documentary that addressed something about which I had been curious for some time; I wondered what became of the Japanese planes returning to their fleet after the battle of Midway. I couldn’t understand where all those planes for a group of carriers could land; in this documentary, footage (probably from the surviving Japanese surface ships) shows them ditching nearby (probably in hopes of at least rescuing the aircrews for future battles).