The British-Japanese branch combines Eagle, Illustrious, and Sōryū with four Sea Gladiators, fifteen Fulmars, twenty-one Zeroes, eighteen Vals, eighteen Kates, and thirty-six Swordfish. A separate branch adds a Yorktown-class carrier, probably Enterprise, with eighteen Devastators, eighteen Brewster Buffalos, and thirty-six Curtiss SBC Helldivers. Wildcats and Dauntlesses are treated as uncertain alternatives because their availability depends on the point in 1940 when the carrier deploys.
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The aircraft available for an enlarged Taranto strike
The proposed strike force depends on the aircraft that each navy could supply at the scenario's date.