Re: [MV] British military superiority - tid bits

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 12:20:26 PDT


At 2:22 PM -0400 4/8/05, Steve & Jeannie Keith wrote:
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>The Brits could carry fewer planes because their carriers
>were more top heavy.....

Yep, and they also preferred to put the entire complement into the hanger deck for protection in North Sea/North Atlantic gales.

>A VERY important factor when you only have 2.5 carriers
>like at the battle of Midway!

Yep!

see http://www.hazegray.org/faq/smn3.htm#C10

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