Because no comparable British or Japanese fleet carrier survives, preserved American ships provide an essential physical starting point rather than a universal model. Their machinery, spaces, and arrangements reveal one navy's assumptions, which can then be compared with documentary evidence for the other two powers. Each navy built around its own strategic circumstances and made different mistakes. Japan's deeper wartime weakness lay in pilot training and replacement rather than aircraft design alone, because its aviation system was not prepared for a long peer conflict.
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What surviving American carriers reveal about interwar naval aviation
Preserved American carriers provide physical evidence for comparing how the United States, Britain, and Japan approached interwar carrier design and aviation systems.