"The German Home Fleet still has seven capital ships left, and they are all old warships. Even after modernization, they are absolutely no match for us!" Admiral Ernest King said.
With ten capital ships from the British Navy and six from the American Navy, they already held a decisive advantage in this regard. Not to mention that among the American Navy's six capital ships were three Montana-class battleships with outrageously formidable defenses.
"The Germans' capital ships are nothing to worry about. But we must pay far more attention to their aircraft carriers!" Lieutenant General Halsey said.
"Indeed, the German aircraft carriers are extremely formidable. We must take them seriously," Admiral Andrew Cunningham said as well.
Even though the US and British Combined Fleet now had nine Essex-class aircraft carriers, four Independence-class light carriers, and eight medium carriers from the British Navy, outnumbering the German Navy's eight aircraft carriers by 2.5 to 1, they had only around 1.5 times as many carrier-based aircraft as the German Navy. Once the performance of both sides' carrier-based aircraft and the quality of their pilots were taken into account, the US and British Combined Fleet had almost no advantage in carrier-based aircraft.
Although the carrier fighters aboard American and British aircraft carriers had all been upgraded to the advanced F4U fighter plane, which was undoubtedly an extremely advanced fighter, it held no advantage at all against the German Navy's carrier-based FW-190 fighters. On the contrary, it was at a disadvantage. Coupled with the superiority of German Navy carrier-based aircraft pilots, the American Navy's carrier-based aircraft were undoubtedly at a disadvantage. The only thing they could rely on was perhaps their numerical superiority.
"No matter what, in this comparison of strength, we already hold an absolute advantage. As long as we seize it properly, defeating the