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Let's say that for whatever reason, Japan never launches the Pacific war against the European colonies and the United States, and peace between those powers is maintained through WWII and its aftermath.

What does this mean for development in naval aviation and carrier-based warfare?

No Pearl Harbor, Midway, or sinking of the PoW and Repulse and so forth means carriers have still not yet been tested against each other. British operations in the Med offers a limited set of examples for the usefulness of carriers, but that was against the Regina Maria.

By the time everyone is ready to think about the next war, presumably jet aircraft have been introduced. Without the experience of the Pacific War, what will carriers be used for?
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