The 1946 annual argues that the final phase of the air war at sea shifted emphasis from striking enemy forces toward carrying operations that protected and moved men and supplies. It treats that logistical work in both Europe and the Pacific as a central air-sea mission rather than a secondary activity. The author then draws immediate postwar conclusions about inter-service cooperation, carrier aviation as a mobile base, transport and escort aircraft, navigation technology, and turbojet power. Guided missiles and atomic warheads appear as possible replacements for the traditional heavy bomber in major-war attack, while transport remains necessary after destruction. Reading these claims as a 1946 forecast makes it possible to see which conclusions later proved durable and which were premature.
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A 1946 view of the air war at sea
A postwar Brassey's assessment treats convoy protection, inter-service cooperation, carrier aviation, and guided weapons as connected lessons of the Second World War.