HMS Argus.

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Here begins a series of blog entries, extracts with commentary from the Internet web site "Great Power War". Topics in all cases aviation, warplane design as of the era prior to and during the Second World War, aviation oddities and curiosities for want of a better description.

"The Coolest Experimental Planes of World War II"

"Birth of the aircraft carrier"

DAZZLE!

"Between World Wars I and II, fighter planes underwent a great deal of innovation. From the bi-planes and tri-planes in the 'Great War' to the high-speed monoplanes of the late 1920s and 1930s, the world powers made great strides in aviation."

"That included the development and introduction of the aircraft carrier, the first of which belonged to the British Royal Navy, the HMS Argus, the first flat-deck carrier which debuted in 1918. The U.S. would not follow suit until 1920."

HMS Argus the first flat-top aircraft carrier. The conventional design as has been since 1918. In this case not so much the vessel or the warplanes but the dazzle paint pattern. Confuse the range finder of an enemy warship, most especially so the very limited range finder of an attacking German submarine.

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