The Royal Navy pushed its technology as far as it could go in the Tondern raid.
Nearly a century ago during World War I, the Royal Navy launched the first air strike from an aircraft carrier ever, targeting a zeppelin base in Tondern. After dropping a cumulative bomb load that barely exceeded the weight of a single five-hundred-pound bomb carried by a typical World War II fighter, the naval strike planes all proceeded to crash in the sea or were forced to land on neutral territory.
This attack actually constituted an enormous success—and remains a landmark in the history of naval aviation.