Pausing capital ships released fitting-out labor because battleship armor demanded a large workforce. Pausing carriers was harder to justify in this account: carriers also mattered to the Atlantic campaign and did not impose the same armor-plate labor burden. Procurement was an allocation problem in which accelerating one urgently needed capability could weaken another.
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Carrier construction and scarce shipyard labor
A short procurement critique separates the labor case for pausing battleships from Churchill's decision to slow carriers while escort fitting accelerated.