Multi-carrier doctrine cannot be assigned cleanly to a single inventor. Britain operated several carriers together because it possessed the world's largest carrier fleet, while officers such as Reginald Henderson formalized practices already becoming necessary. Genda in Japan and Ernest King and other American officers pushed comparable solutions in their own services. Limited aircraft payloads, imperfect targeting, and the simple value of concentrating more aircraft made convergence more important than imitation.
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Multi-carrier operations emerged from common technical pressures
Britain, Japan, and the United States developed multi-carrier methods because concentrating aircraft increased striking power despite contemporary limits on weapons and targeting.