For French AA, just use normally classed gunners with good reload base.

Italian AA, for all intents and purposes, is not worth getting into.

For my French BB I use 11/11 gunners as AA, even not boosted.

Sorry, that was not the question

Italian and french have no AA-Gunners. You have to use normal gunners.

Now the question

I have not raised them to gunners or chief gunners. I let them be armoured sailors (they have lvl 92) because the ability rate and also the growth rate is much better. Now i am not quite sure

if the result is finally really better if i am let them be "armoured sailors".