A Crab, interested by the question but only with a short detachment to the "Old" Ark (R08?) in the 70's, I comment only from the perspective of the technical issues surrounding the operations.
I dredged this up on the web and was fascinated by the degree of complexity in these operations...I cannot claim anything other than webcrawlers rights.
www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA411975
It gets interesting from around page 49.
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