Alex attributes an early-war multi-carrier handbook supplied to the US Navy to years of Royal Navy exercises. In his account, American combat experience refined those procedures before some returned to British use. Jamie finds parts of that connection plausible but asks for detailed documentary support. The proposed exchange would make Allied practice a result of experience shared in both directions, although the handbook's history remains unresolved here.
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The disputed British contribution to Allied carrier procedures
A disputed account traces Allied multi-carrier procedures from British interwar exercises to American wartime refinements.