The lecture's closing preview turns to Royal Navy assessments of American carrier leadership at Coral Sea, Midway, and Leyte Gulf. Britain had been sending information about carrier-group air defence in the Mediterranean, and some American fighter pilots viewed it as confirmation of ideas developed in the 1930s. The harder step was reorganizing the fleet and securing the funding needed to put those lessons into practice. The preview rejects the simple claim that battleship admirals alone resisted carrier doctrine because battleship commanders understood they needed carrier air cover to bring their guns into action. Evidence could reach practitioners well before institutions and budgets changed.
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Royal Navy lessons meet US carrier air-defence institutions
The closing preview shows why passing reports to another navy does not guarantee that fleets, budgets, and organizations will absorb the lesson.