The comparison with Britain shows how different wartime traumas produced different interwar priorities. The Royal Navy accepted the cost and danger of extensive night-flying practice because the German fleet's escape after Jutland remained an institutional warning. An informal expectation also required a bridge midshipman to be able to maintain a cruiser's anti-submarine zigzag if senior officers were killed. The expectation is linked to the 1914 loss of Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue, showing how operational disaster can persist in training culture even without a plainly written rule.
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Jutland, cruiser losses, and the British appetite for risky training
British night-aviation risk and junior-officer maneuver training reflected institutional memories of Jutland and the loss of Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue.