Lack of Air Support
Now let me think on of the largest losses of life of the Royal Navy due to the LACK of Air superiority was the sinking of the Prince of Wales and the HMS Repulse by the Japanese Naval Air Service. There we go gentlemen one positive show of Airpower dictating the events of a theatre of war, shall I go onto the second?
Oh lets;
D-Day, if the RAF had not secured air superiority over Normandy the landing would have been a dismal waste of Army life on all fronts not just the American Beaches. Therefore the landings would not have been achievable, however; we secured the airspace, and Europe was freed.
Do not dismiss the power of an Airforce, not a fragment effort of an Army Air Corp and Naval Air Corp. We were the only force to repulse Hitler and the Axis Air Force during 1939-1940, we were only let down by the politicians of the time and dare I say history is starting to repeat itself.