Posted by John Wilson on December 05, 2024 at 00:38:44 user hugo.
John says ''sail is the thing... ''. His elder brother John had said only this morning that ''steamships were just engines in tin boxes'' (SA1) Titty says ''It’s the sails that manner'' and Roger replies ''but all the same an engine's jolly useful .... Now, for instance'' (WD1). Roger becomes ‘’ships engineer’’.
John expects to follow his father into the Navy. And there he would by going to sea in ''tin boxes!'' By 1942 the capital ship was the aircraft carrier not the battleship, with battles like the ''Battle of the Coral Sea'' (off Australia) and the ''Battle of Midway'' fought by aircraft from carriers out of sight of each other.
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