This speculative branch pairs Royal Navy night operations and radar-equipped search aircraft with American daytime striking power. British doctrine sought night contact, and Swordfish radar could maintain a track for an American dawn strike. A combined fleet might defend Malaya and stop Japan earlier, altering Australia's experience of British naval support. The outcome remains speculative. The night-strike and dawn-strike sequence illustrates one possible pattern of cooperation between the navies.
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A combined British-American carrier battle changes the Pacific war
British night-strike doctrine and American dawn attacks could combine against Japan before the historical carrier war develops.