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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