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WI the Ark Royal not been hit on the 13.11.1941 torpedoed E of Gibraltar by a German submarine U 81 and was sent to the Indian ocean with the ILLUSTRIOUS which was hit on the 10.01.1941 damaged in Mediterranean Sea by a German Ju-87s .
Let say these two ships were refitted in the US and then sent to the Indian ocean with full loads of new FAA aircraft .