Why British carrier history remained hard to see

Jamie recalls learning about American naval battles at school in Australia, then pursuing brief references to British carriers in books about American ships. Illustrious, Formidable, Pedestal, and the British Pacific Fleet proved difficult to follow through accessible operational narratives. Those gaps led him to assemble documentation on his website so readers could examine it themselves. Alex describes following scattered references to Henderson into research on carrier design and institutions. He also recalls resistance to publishing his interpretation because it differed from prevailing American-Japanese accounts. Both connect these gaps with histories that pass quickly over the interwar years, obscuring the development behind wartime ships and operations.