This is a story of the hare and the tortoise. While the British hare started well ahead in the naval aviation race at the end of the First World War, political decisions and financial strictures undermined development so that by the Second World War it had been overtaken by the United States Navy (USN) tortoise, with an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) tortoise coming a close second. As the author asserts,

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航母打击的黎明：WP Lucy DSO RN中尉的世界

这是一个兔子和乌龟的故事。虽然英国野兔在第一次世界大战结束时的海军航空竞赛中开始遥遥领先，但政治决定和财政限制破坏了发展，以至于到第二次世界大战它被美国海军 (USN) 乌龟超越，与紧随其后的日本帝国海军 (IJN) 陆龟。正如作者断言，