Franc, Claude <br/><br/>
Military history 

 -  2021.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Although battleships were the capital ships of navies at the start of the Second World War, from 1940 they showed their vulnerability to embarked aviation. Nevertheless, navies took some time to recognise that such ships, the quintessence of naval construction since the mid-nineteenth century, were outclassed.