The small aircraft profiles can be compared with Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm to identify units and reconstruct their colour schemes. That is what makes the camouflage volume an overview: it connects visual information to specialist references rather than trying to replace them. The growing number of machine guns and pom-poms shown on the ships also argues against the claim that the Royal Navy ignored air defence. Together, the profiles support research into carrier air groups and material responses to aerial threats.
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Combining carrier profiles with squadron and air-defence research
Carrier profiles become more useful when cross-referenced with Fleet Air Arm squadron histories, while visible additions of machine guns and pom-poms show continued Royal Navy concern about air attack.