Originally posted by karmic
US pacific fleet CVs DID use concrete to patch up the flight decks so pilots could take off and land until better repairs could be made. Or maybe Winston S. Churchill's time life autobiography (published in '59) is full of bull@#$$?
I'd look for another source, if only because it would be alot
simpler to repair the wooden US flight decks with wood. It would
also be faster and use less equipment.
Since the Royal Navy used metal flight decks, maybe they used
different methods of repair?