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175 convoys crossed the North Atlantic in 1943. Of those only 20 were escorted at least part of the way by Escort Carriers, 8 by HMS...

I haven't had a chance to post the actual record of the Royal Navy in night battles in the Mediterranean, but is spectacular to say the...

Agreed. Those that are actually interested in the night fighting capacities of the RN rather than pontificating that the British were...

The Japanese realized later on in the war that great range was not all that useful and reduced the range of both the Type 93 and 95...

You might find the following of interest:- RN Escort carriers In the summer of 1943 there were voices in the USN querying the length of...

Unfortunately for the US a lot of the Japanese success around Guadalcanal was due to US incompetence. Not trying to take away from...

I posted the record of escort carriers here: https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/rn-vs-ijn.61540/page-50?post=1905103#post-1905103

According to the figures from "Strangling the Axis" aircraft sank 153,000 tons in 1941, 195,563 tons in 1942 and 474,407 tons in 1943...

Oribi and Offa proved to be extraordinarily useful in the pivotal battle of ONS 5. Excerpt from...

I would also add that one of the first aviation books I remember reading was Ralph Barkers "Torpedo Bomber" followed by his "The...

Aircraft should be thought of as weapons systems. The B-24s effectiveness improved dramatically with the addition of centimetric radar...

I posted this USN study on dive bombing accuracy a while ago...

Agreed. The Battle of the Atlantic was won primarily by the destroyers and corvettes of the RN and RCN. You can escort convoys with...

As you know I am against this one. The few B-24s (and crews) did excellent/exceptional work and showed the utter stupidity (criminal?)...

I found the claims for Swordfish to be very dubious so a few months ago I purchased this book...