Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Holland ya dawo daga ayyukansa tare da Faransanci kuma a watan Mayu 1940 ya dauki umurnin mai ɗaukar jirgin sama, wanda ya umurce shi har zuwa Mayu 1941. "Ark Royal" ya halarci wasu manyan wasan kwaikwayo na yakin, kuma Holland ya umurce shi a lokacin Operation Alphabet
, jigilar sojoji daga Narvik zuwa Birtaniyya, da dakarun da ke rakiyar jirgi da yawa ta cikin Bahar Rum, hare-haren bama-bamai a kan babban yankin Italiya, da kuma neman jiragen saman Jamus "Scharnhorst" da "Gneisenau".