I doubt it Harry,
As matters were we didn't have a sufficiently well equipped Army despite no end of re-armament schemes. To imagine that the Army or the Navy would have pursued the development of aircraft to the standard of the JU87 and 88 along with 20 mm cannon armed Fighters... well I somehow doubt. The important lesson from all this is that splitting the R.A.F. into the air components of the other two services would be pursued, as Easy Street pointed out, solely for financial gain and certainly not for any realistic military reasons. Therefore, the air elements in such circumstances would be short of one thing, investment, no four-star officer to make their case, no direct channel to the Defence Secretary, or as was the case, no Air Ministry. The Aeroplane in the hands of the Army, if not the Navy as well, would have been regarded, through to the defeat of British Arms on British Soil by the Wehrmacht, as nothing more than that new-fangled thing.
FB
