When the RN carriers joined combat with the existing USN task forces, laisons were traded to experience anything/everything procedurally so a homogenous methodology could be adapted.
A very strange thing happened, and immediately...the USN adopted the RN method of vectoring intercepts. It is mentioned occasionally and usually as a procedural shift that greatly assisted with kamikaze atracks.
This is fascinating to me. The USN had been operating huge carrier tasks groups and instantly saw that they were wrong. Considering the difficulties admitting much less fixing the mk14 torpedo from the same organization....whats the story here?
The USN did adopt the Royal Navy method of fighter director control, but it happened in 1941 not 1944. The Royal Navy's Fighter Direction School was established in May of 1941 at RNAS Yeovilton. It was commanded by LCDR Charles Coke who recognized the need for fighter direction training while serving as the Air Signals officer on the HMS Ark Royal during the German invasion of Norway.
The school consisted of a three-week course consisting of lecture and practical exercise. Due to lack of aircraft, the practical exercise was done using ice cream vendor tricycles equipped with a compass, radio, metronome, and a front shield that restricted visibility.
US Navy adoption of the RN system of fighter direction had its roots in the Tizard Mission of mid-1940. Following this interchange, a number of US naval aviators were sent as observers with RN and RAF squadrons. A number of them also attended the fighter direction course at RNAS Yeovilton and later the RCAF fighter direction school in Ontario.
US naval fighter direction schools were established in San Diego and Norfolk in Sep/Oct 1941 based on the British system. The San Diego school was led by LCDR John H. “Jack” Griffin and LJG Henry A. Rowe, both of whom had been observers in British squadrons and were graduates of the school at Yeovilton.
In short, the US did adopt the system of fighter direction control, but it happened much earlier. The US never really developed their own methods as they created a school based on the British system in Sep 1941 only a year after the first installation of CXAM radar on an aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown.
Source:
Boslaugh, D.L. CAPT USN, Retired, Radar and the Fighter Directors