CAP and CAP directer teams on the outlying Radar Picket Destroyers really made thier mark off Okinawa..the system worked ..by May I believe..the Army had set up 90MM radar guided arty..really thinned out the Betty's and Kamikazes.
Once the 90's were locked on..there was hardly a chance for escape.
Have read many scarry acounts from pilots who flew CAP off Okinawa.
Navy was trigger happy for sure..but hard to blame the crews..they saw alot of thier sister ships on station go up in fireballs hundreds of ft and sink.
Ya..it took nerve to follow a Val or Zero over the fleet in a Corsair.
I bet the Cosair pilots talked to God alot : )