You should be able to simply follow the waypoints on your navigation map to the carrier. There is sadly no way to illuminate the carrier during night operations, which in any case was considered very risky in an active war zone. I believe you can also ask for a vector to your home base with your radio, although I haven't tested this myself.
Unfortunately, I have decided to shelve any future Il-2 mission building projects for the time being. This campaign was not received particularly well - after 140 downloads at Mission4Today, it has not even received a rating, much less any reviews, good or bad. For all I know, you are the only person who has actually played through it, aside from myself. I am glad you enjoyed it, but I have to conclude that either people weren't interested in the alternate history subject, or my execution was lacking. I probably spent way too much effort on the briefings for a simple 8 mission campaign - maybe those walls of text made people reluctant to move past the first few missions.
Still, I enjoyed making the campaign and I am glad that you, at least, enjoyed it. 
Well, that happens all the time. I get it, you spend months building a Campaign and you have no idea if anyone actually likes it. Well to be honest, the only feedback I typically get if something is messed up... anymore if there isn't any feedback I consider it a success. I mean really, are you getting paid for how many downloads? I figure it this way... Since I can't really donate to SAS or M4Today and all this content is FREE, it's the least I can do is build some Campaigns that just maybe someone likes.