The A/C attached to ships do not launch, not even from carriers. (However the presence of a carrier means you'll see planes in the area.)
Re assistance from surface ships in battle -- it has been known to happen, but one has to "get lucky" -- you can't arrange for it. Certainly in early Apr. 1940 the odds of seeing ship-v.-ship and ship-v.-plane battles are much greater.
Mach's gut!
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Dietrich Schöneboom, U-431
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