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 ...

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 ...