Britain’s aircraft carriers have played a vital role
SIR – Sir Max Hastings never misses an opportunity to have a dig at Britain’s aircraft carriers, most recently in a report about armoured recce vehicles (December 29).
I am uncertain whether Sir Max has ever set foot on an aircraft carrier, but he will recall, as a writer about global conflict, that in the Second World War Germany, Italy and Japan could not have been defeated without the critical contribution of aircraft carriers in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, in every major amphibious landing and, in particular, in the remorseless allied fight across the Pacific.