The Royal Navy operated maritime air patrols at a scale other navies did not match during World War I. It then shared operational lessons with the United States, France, Italy, and Japan, making British experience a foundation for Allied thinking in the 1920s and 1930s. Anglo-American aircraft cooperation mattered because Curtiss helped build the flying boats while firms such as Supermarine carried development forward in Britain. Interwar ASW doctrine emerged through international exchange as well as national experimentation.
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How British ASW experience shaped Allied interwar assumptions
Britain's large wartime maritime-air effort became a shared Allied reference point through cooperation with American, French, Italian, and Japanese partners.