North Africa, Rodney, and the escort-carrier idea in wartime print

The next Hutchinson issue opens a visual route into the North African campaign and the navy's part in it. One photograph shows HMS Rodney with two destroyers, and the shape and armament of an escort provide clues to its identity. A page on carrier aviation challenges claims that the escort carrier was wholly new in the Second World War by pointing back to the converted liner HMS Argus as an earlier full-flight-deck precedent. The magazine also places Cunningham, Mark Clark, Darlan, and Eisenhower together in the political and command setting of Operation Torch. Adjacent pages combine ship recognition, technological ancestry, and high-command personalities.