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Royal Navy and RAF navigator training

The services trained large navigator cohorts separately but tried to share instructors and pool expertise where practical.

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Question

Did the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force combine navigator training?

Short answer

Not as one fully combined system, but they tried to share instructors and pool training expertise where practical.

Notes

The scale of wartime demand made a single combined navigator-training system unnecessary and sometimes impractical. The Royal Navy and RAF nevertheless tried to share instructors and expertise across their programmes. Useful cooperation did not require complete organizational consolidation.