Last week Herr Goring’s fliers set out to test one theory of air-minded modern militarists: that the plane is mightier than the battleship. If that theory can be proved true, the balance of power in ...

The boys on the aircraft carrier Ark Royal (who, depending on their mood, called her the Ark or My Royal Arse) had begun to think of her as charmed; the Axis claimed her sinking again & again, but ...