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Victorious taught the US Navy what not to repeat on the Midways

A reconstruction question asks what the US Navy learned from the extensive rebuilding of HMS Victorious.

Question

What did the US Navy learn from the reconstruction of HMS Victorious?

Short answer

It learned not to impose the same kind of rebuild on the Midway-class carriers.

Notes

The lesson was to avoid attempting the same kind of transformation on the Midway class. The US approach diverged because the ships and their intended rebuild path were different.