How does greater RN success 1939-41 impact the Far East Fleet?

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Glorious and two accompanying destroyers either slow up or sail home faster, avoiding the twins. Norway campaign, France, and Low Countries play out same, addition of one British carrier and two destroyers not enough to butterfly events away.

Glorious joins strike on Taranto, number of British aircraft roughly doubled. In addition to OTL damage, a Swordfish from Glorious puts a fourth torpedo into battleship Littorio, increasing repair time to roughly 7 months, while also putting two torpedoes into the battleship Andrea Doria(no OTL damage), as well as unexpectly causing the worst loss of life when a torpedo and a bomb strike the cruiser Gorizia. One weapon, it's never determined which, triggers a catastrophic detonation of the cruiser's forward magazine. With four Italian battleships crippled and a cruiser completely destroyed, the Royal Navy has complete naval superiority of the Med for six months.

March 27-29, 1941. Eastern Med, off Cape Matapan, Greece

A force of British warships including the aircraft carriers HMS Glorious and HMS Formidable, battleships HMS Barham, HMS Valiant, HMS Warspite, 7 cruisers and 18 destroyers engage an Italian fleet including the battleship Vittorio Veneto, 8 cruisers, and 17 destroyers. Air strikes hit Vittorio Veneto with two torpedoes. The battleship does not sink, but is unable to remain in the fight and forced to retire. The cruiser Bolzano is also struck by two torpedoes amidships, and sinks within 2 hours, taking over 300 of her crew with her. The cruiser Pola, having ground to a near complete stop in order to avoid a collision with the cruiser Fiume, is struck by a torpedo that knocks out five boilers and the main steam line. The cruisers Zola, Fiume, and 4 destroyers are ordered to render aid to Pola, unaware that Admiral Cunningham is pursuing the Italian fleet with his battleships and other escorts.

In the subsequent night engagement, cruisers Pola, Fiume, and Zola and sunk by British battleships. Of the four Italian destroyers, Vittorio Alfieri and Giosue Carducci are sunk in the first five minutes of the battle, Oriani manages to escape unscathed after being pursued by British destroyers HMS Griffin and HMS Greyhound, while in one of the more famous incidents of the war, the Italian destroyer Gioberti is sunk with all hands after being ambushed by HMS Ardent, which hits the Italian destroyer with at least two full broadsides at point blank range. As Gioberti is lost with all hands, it is never determined how Ardent managed to get so close to the Italian warship without being spotted or fired upon herself, but widespread opinion is that the crew of the Gioberti may have confused HMS Ardent with the Italian destroyer Oriani during the confusion of the battle. The Battle of Cape Matapan is considered by many to have been even worse of a disaster for the Italians then Taranto. One of their two remaining operational battleships is damaged and will need at least 4 months in dock to repair her at minimum, while 4 irreplaceable cruisers and 3 destroyers have been lost. Over 2,800 Italian personnel are killed or missing, while 1,037 are picked up by various British and other Allied warships.

June 1941, HMS Glorious is ordered to the US for a refit and upgrades of certain systems aboard the ship.

January 1942, HMS Glorious, in company with 3 destroyers including HMS Ardent, are ordered to Colombo in the Indian Ocean to defend against Japanese moves in the region. Glorious is sporting an air wing of 24 Albacores and 24 Martlets.

April 10 1942, Japanese forces attack the harbor at Trincomalee and the British ships off Batticaloa. The Corvette HMS Hollyhock and numerous other ships are sunk. By sheer chance, the light carrier HMS Hermes and Australian destroyer HMAS Vampire have left harbor 48 hours earlier to link up with destroyer HMAS Nestor in route to Sydney, Australia. In what will ultimately prove a one off operation, primarily due to logistical concerns and overall lack of ships, HMS Hermes and HMAS Vampire and HMAS Nestor will operate with Task Force 44. Admiral Somerville had hoped to use his three fleet carriers, HMS Glorious, HMS Formidable, and HMS Indomitable, to ambush Nagumo's fleet, but ultimately was unable to do so, while Nagumo did not achieve his aim of sinking or crippling the British Eastern Fleet, Despite sinking two heavy cruisers and a number of auxiliary warships.

May 7 1942, Battle of the Coral Sea. US Carrier Task Force 17, built around USS Yorktown, Task Force 11, centered on Lexington, take on a Japanese fleet attempting to land at Port Moresby, New Guinea. In the ensuing battle, Lexington, the oiler Neosho, and destroyer Sims are lost on the Allied side, while the carrier Shokaku is damaged, the light carrier Shoho, destroyer Kikuzuki, and three auxiliary warships are sunk, and the Japanese fleet is turned back. Task Force 44, under the command of Royal Navy Rear Admiral John Crace, including the light carrier HMS Hermes, carrying 12 Swordfish and 8 Marlets, The Australian cruisers HMAS Australia and HMAS Hobart, Australian destroyers HMAS Nestor and HMAS Vampire, cruiser USS Chicago, and destroyers USS Perkins, USS Walke, and USS Farragut are deployed to the Jomard Passage to intercept Japanese invasion forces approaching Port Moresby. During a series of air attacks from Japanese land based aircraft, 9 of 12 attacking Japanese torpedo planes are shot down, and 15 of 19 Japanese heavy bombers are later shot down in a second attack. A third attack by 3 USAAF bombers that didn't know they where attacking friendly Allied warships causes no damage or casualties. US and Royal Navy commanders are enraged and USAAF mistakes. The USAAF denies the whole incident ever happened. In 1946, then retired Vice Admiral John Crace in a chance meeting in Britain gives USAAF Lieutenant General George Brett a black eye after punching him in the face as a result of this friendly fire incident.
 
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