re Seafires landing successfully
Commander Mike Crossley wrote "They Gave Me a Seafire" e.g.
https://www.bookdepository.com/They-.../9781473821910
He was leading a combined 801 & 880 squadron on the HMS Implacable in the BPF at war's end.
A while since I read it but I seem to recall by the tine they were attacking Japan itself, the later model Seafires, altered landing procedures, and different ground attack tactics, enabled quite low loss and damage rates