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Document: Indomitable, August 12, Damage Report (Bomb & Shell) https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26784/2014/10/16/formidable-report-from-commanding-officer-may-26 monthly 0.5 2015-05-12 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26784/2014/10/16/formidable-may-26-damage-report-bomb-shell monthly 0.5 2015-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413459080916-NFLB3MN0VL12HOQKJYJA/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424154760686-2M1YEPUK7RNWSEAGV2TJ/IMG_0533.JPG ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) This image, lost from the National Archives Admiralty Bomb Damage archive, show the penetration point on the deck (black spot far left) and smoke and flame billowing from FORMIDABLE's side. This may the image referred in the Damage Report as A.2 - 20 seconds after detonation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195929900-8NJ5AXCGQEYPRGHDGZV2/ADM_267_84_041.jpg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) Uncaptioned photographs in ADM 267/84 Formidable's file. The top image appears to be that listed as "A.1. Hit starboard side forward, bomb bursting". The second is unidentified internal damage and the third, from the bow wave and wake, was obviously taken while still underway and may be "A.4. 1 hour after bomb explosion, looking forward starboard side in capstan engine flat from about 21 station." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415311610809-6FT9X5V43LNGXD2RQOLH/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194871526-0XW3XY8KHEODLVUWBK48/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194891372-ZAOC53VADERSL0E0G56R/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194935012-0KBGWUHSS1WEM2KU03A2/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194958656-2OOHB451VTDJAVA86R6K/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194767263-MZG4U1Y4R6ALF4IWI6RH/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194810608-Q27P6O36W37ZYQKBBKI3/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194843486-1OZ1QFVIZFFSYUC24AFQ/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194680439-SKHJZJSD86OWA3XGG2O5/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194634912-08FNORQNF6KXWPOIVLCN/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421194613424-CA3P2V9R5WHDBQ7X8A34/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195572113-X76VNEZ6VEKDVEY212DP/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195593193-JX5R1ZN2XQKZR3YCI1S5/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195632930-XZ7T8JWAYY7O30Z4UVSJ/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195671169-A892M3J606BSA27O06A0/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195697261-FAE4OXV2DF3W3H0SAC3X/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195726932-NQCLXSIQZKTMBQ5P9K6V/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195743638-3SWMXOFQW8EZXI3SNJHI/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415311651270-WJLWQVEAI7X8ZAEHAXND/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195800326-9O1F4LJXCS434WWTLQ5A/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195832111-TIDM7WKE4CQYEGGD1TW4/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421195859609-DKLJ51XFXJ56B17RDTK3/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415355173783-M3M5K1K2ZYKNEODNQ5TL/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424155174717-NJ2ERB9UP0YQZ709TGXW/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) This picture, while sometimes captioned as being HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, is also sometimes captioned HMS FORMIDABLE. The scene matches very closely with that of a caption listed for a missing photo from FORMIDABLE's National Archives Admiralty Damage Report: "B.1. Hit starboard side aft. Bomb bursting under water." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415355249479-UNYNYC9SC0WPAGJJRDX4/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421197237232-EE4RK4IPC48AV1UFKLH7/ADM_267_84_042.jpg ADM267/84: - Document: Formidable, May 26, Damage (Bomb & Shell) Uncaptioned photographs in ADM 267/84 Formidable's file. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26787 daily 0.75 2016-02-13 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26787/2014/10/16/formidable-may-4-damage-report-bomb-shell monthly 0.5 2016-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413455984813-JSXPUCGJJZVJSAMZOKBA/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1455367134934-X1LMXUCKE1HVYSRAG4WH/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012085398-LBDS1TRMUZA5LF8AT9KR/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012110714-TVPT85IV9VK04H2MB6M0/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012176763-DXV7RMOBWTY5BEUY102K/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012207317-DOG79C5BMDYDEW8F4T0C/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012227844-8RMHDPMQ1NFN25XJJ0YE/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012240939-6FM78QFMAT2Q2YLOSIUA/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012489018-LTBI0KKLS12I33WG3KCL/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012665336-LMP3GBVPAX9ZQ3JGZ2NO/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012508620-VD1C4G2GPXQOP27JRHPP/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012686211-3SO7RXR2DNZORTH55RI9/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012617130-OWLC6XC5L7UIMFF7HKBV/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Formidable, May 4, KamikazeDamage (Bomb & Shell) https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26787/2014/10/16/hms-victorious-may-9-damage-report-bomb-shell monthly 0.5 2016-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413456143522-R4UR7M5Z04TIRHTDOT5I/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Victorious, May 9, Kamikaze Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26787/2014/10/16/indefatigable-april-4-damage-report-bomb-shell monthly 0.5 2016-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413456358687-AB1721MFQU2TE4J1DEN3/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Indefatigable, April 1, Kamikaze Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012796553-AKW6I1VLO04VO0LLA5A2/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Indefatigable, April 1, Kamikaze Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012817211-49DTRGD5ZINNDC6UPSJT/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Indefatigable, April 1, Kamikaze Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012830184-8WEQOBFAL7Y0E4PEGUHJ/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Indefatigable, April 1, Kamikaze Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012846432-H09IUWNRGKZGPA0HJLR0/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Indefatigable, April 1, Kamikaze Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012864259-YOUNYR11B19D2TT32M0Z/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Indefatigable, April 1, Kamikaze Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418012879575-0ZUL34RTUGR0D9XTIQWD/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Indefatigable, April 1, Kamikaze Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26787/2014/10/16/illustrious-april-6-damage-report-bomb-shell monthly 0.5 2015-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413456568728-AIPOAFEY1B1L46TYBIQF/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Illustrious, April 6, Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26787/2014/10/16/indomitable-may-4-damage-report-bomb-shell monthly 0.5 2016-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413456768638-XHCS498F215HXXKFWVXZ/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/87: - Document: Indomitable, May 4, Kamikaze Damage (Bomb & Shell) https://www.armouredcarriers.com/contact-and-comment daily 0.75 2014-05-05 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/contact-and-comment/2014/4/27/d0ykf87e1f8wmkb918ebez2k4px1xh monthly 0.5 2014-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1399326852339-FA4QRCFD10F19IUZ18T0/Discussion.jpg Contact and Comment - Feedback https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm daily 0.75 2014-10-17 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/new-blog daily 0.75 2015-04-29 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/new-blog/2015/4/29/m8pu3ld74q8a0v3txeajk5spg5h76g monthly 0.5 2015-04-28 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/discussion-armoured-aircraft-carrier-effectiveness daily 0.75 2024-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1487788689876-5RXNID7N17QD63IHUG4N/Formid-fixed.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness https://www.armouredcarriers.com/discussion-armoured-aircraft-carrier-effectiveness/2024/1/17/hms-victorious-and-the-impacts-of-rudder-problems-on-its-wartime-missions monthly 0.5 2024-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/7014c888-2fa4-4f6f-93d2-f73c7ddeb808/25-3626539-hms-victorious.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - HMS Victorious and the Impacts of Rudder Problems on its Wartime Missions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/c8d74246-9b73-4161-bc0c-1059f651eef7/large_000000.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - HMS Victorious and the Impacts of Rudder Problems on its Wartime Missions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/ea7762f2-8294-411a-98e5-acc4ee46d994/large+%289%29.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - HMS Victorious and the Impacts of Rudder Problems on its Wartime Missions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/50f0b173-a2ee-46a0-98f7-f0330dc38d6e/Photo04cvVictorious1947MQ.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - HMS Victorious and the Impacts of Rudder Problems on its Wartime Missions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/f1032ac2-e234-4117-8c62-212e3bd3c366/IMG_0249.JPG Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - HMS Victorious and the Impacts of Rudder Problems on its Wartime Missions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/discussion-armoured-aircraft-carrier-effectiveness/2024/1/17/pathfinders-radar-amp-incompetence-the-formidable-failures-of-the-okinawa-campaign monthly 0.5 2024-01-16 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/discussion-armoured-aircraft-carrier-effectiveness/2022/11/15/critique-by-andrew-green monthly 0.5 2024-01-16 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/discussion-armoured-aircraft-carrier-effectiveness/2021/11/30/0kfmxcj7c4mn7w9vza43zup156p2w5 monthly 0.5 2024-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/d459dc5c-7e71-4427-862b-96113ae4f320/uss-yorktown-at-the-bottom.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Armored vs unarmored carrier decks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/97103aaf-290a-4fd0-8a02-ed2b0f38a1b9/hornet.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Armored vs unarmored carrier decks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/discussion-armoured-aircraft-carrier-effectiveness/2015/4/29/critique-submitted-by-david-anderson monthly 0.5 2015-04-29 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/discussion-armoured-aircraft-carrier-effectiveness/2015/1/23/famous-photos-enduring-mystery monthly 0.5 2020-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421970197601-9CZQOO0UICW5YTZQA3F7/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery The original 1941 photograph appears to have been lost, leaving only copies of varying quality. All have been cropped to suit the publications they were reproduced for - imposing a horizontal or vertical emphasis and attempting to correct the original image's apparently skewed horizon. The above composite merges the broadest available image (showing the island at the extreme left) with the tallest (showing the smoke plume and shadows amidships - as well as a photographic etch mark at the extreme top edge). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1588986125302-MGOWJR2F7W9XLRHSR04R/unnamed%2B%284%29.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery Immense thanks to John Clark who recognised he had a copy of the almost complete original image, reproduced above, and shared it with me. It is so much clearer (particularly with the shadow balance). As a result, we can see so much more in the absence of the copy of a copy of a copy effect … https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422692875515-I2512O9MAPUHGTK9EUGC/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422135412570-BAA3MUGXSG2511VK08QI/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery One of the Naval Engineers drawings of the damage sustained by HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. For the full original Damage Report and the accompanying drawings, CLICK HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421983663840-BWLE0OSKP24DZLRNGTQ8/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421984299539-WM5MTTIS6QKKJI8MCT60/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421982890390-X7BR2N9WYJZI56ZQ04UY/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422100588277-R1SOGR7NT5MYL1BOS6TT/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424475413370-7O4OZJX4XVAQG39M8BIQ/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422091530373-4YANZW27WZPET0KUZ7GL/1941_01_15_lift_Malta_illustrious.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422100017103-9UO2GTR9N4XBQXIFNI34/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery The entry hole left by the 2200lb (1000kg) bomb which pierced ILLUSTRIOUS's 3in 'box hangar' armour on the flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422092108195-4D1VK59T0RL63VZII95X/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422689118374-5MYMNJ59J1LWOPY84K8P/large+%283%29.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422692548635-DD2R11WDQSITLIAP5UYM/large+%283%29.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694311407-JW4JSVOCZTHLAWUCIH7U/image-asset.png Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694230485-7950UK49BDXY0ZPFYQD3/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694272250-Q0HZ4DBM7MCNMIHZSLYQ/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694071908-1SXUQXVGYRTAFUT90PE9/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694177999-3QBLZD1QP6U31L1ZLCNJ/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694202459-KTIP0URCDPBENOGQY4HI/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694526904-YQCMZ6AIDSU19C9IYSF5/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694680437-UDI8UKOEKVK7OSEBYG43/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694700314-QLJAC1O1BIJJD5LA4RGK/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1422694714137-BM3BWTRH1HSZ2GNHRJFI/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424473824105-72FR68N9H3U3GJL6OTG0/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452470335108-27BNSD88RYQ3Q38UJ7ON/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454741136541-UA975O35N2C9M8PPL3RI/A+20638.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1545624042129-FO3M1ILQCEFZ1ZV5SAER/unnamed+%284%29.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery Picture courtesy John Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1545624180298-JSH4BKC2YNJFQJ627D4H/2018-12-24%2B14_31_32-unnamed%2B%25284%2529.jpg%2B%2540%2B100%2525%2B%2528RGB_8%2523%2529.jpg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Famous photo's enduring mystery https://www.armouredcarriers.com/discussion-armoured-aircraft-carrier-effectiveness/2014/10/27/xzko9qd9hgnnu2ntrznthtx5p9loo2 monthly 0.5 2015-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414490741049-Y0GALFUTPQ5OPWZVYLAA/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Active versus reserve aircraft on the Yorktown class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414490665744-VEVRLFHRSP89WXETRLIS/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Active versus reserve aircraft on the Yorktown class https://www.armouredcarriers.com/discussion-armoured-aircraft-carrier-effectiveness/2014/5/30/debunking-slade-and-worths-armoured-carrier-essays monthly 0.5 2022-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/f9dcf2ab-f379-4228-a56f-08edebcacae1/image-asset+%281%29.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Armoured flight decks: Were the armoured aircraft carriers worthwhile? - Make it stand out Due to code corruption, the original debunk essay has been moved to a new page. Click on the image above to be taken to the new address. I’ve maintained this page to preserve the discussion below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/f887a96f-d40e-4525-88d5-f5ffe51a015b/image-asset.jpeg Discussion: Armoured carrier effectiveness - Armoured flight decks: Were the armoured aircraft carriers worthwhile? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26783 daily 0.75 2015-01-13 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm26783/2014/10/16/illustrious-report-from-commanding-officer-january-10 monthly 0.5 2017-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1419057018432-84CSHKD071690DK0YDBD/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/83: - Document: Illustrious, Commanding Officer January 10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1419056937496-179BSXHCJ0A45JDY81NX/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/83: - Document: Illustrious, Commanding Officer January 10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415358031551-YO81HD72UL3FKHNDRXN1/image-asset.jpeg ADM267/83: - 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Very few photographs were taken of this type during the BPF deployment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397737947157-HPPYHO3OH4FAK6B6M1C7/IMG_0629.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg Oolong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397737957385-IQW5WTD9HJO8CVURN90U/IMG_0630.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg Oolong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397738021237-HG7YOATYQOJ42JCR4Q2U/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg Oolong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398565247628-M2S6L945XSF9BPHFZL11/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg Oolong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397738109615-ZT67FB3CZLSOSEPS06VT/Illustrious_Corsair_crash.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg Oolong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402634207262-M8CN4RGMCAZZAY19HJCB/image-asset.png Task Force 57: Iceberg Oolong Top, Q147 - one of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS'S 1830 Squadron Corsairs, bounced badly upon landing on April 13 before, above, nosing into the island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1419854142217-L98O10JYS12GC7MMI8UC/Episode2_3_01.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg Oolong https://www.armouredcarriers.com/reference daily 0.75 2018-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395492718354-TRRKPJ5GBU5N51EE2HLJ/ww2memoirindomitablewhi+%286%29.jpg References: British Mediterranean Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398263052236-08WX5I0GSGBFAOVMTA5J/image-asset.jpeg References: British Mediterranean Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398263172123-U7V3A2PKLANSDI9BETPE/image-asset.jpeg References: British Mediterranean Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398263642194-N3QZZVYP6BR6CTHDS6QW/41S93VC7V2L._SY445_.jpg References: British Mediterranean Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398263782606-8AN0HDRZ1DOLO4SFGM8L/image-asset.jpeg References: British Mediterranean Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1523613494043-V6DQA0ZGD8P0W86U1AV3/IMG_0302.JPG References: British Mediterranean Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1523613912954-2EYSL4VFDDB4KL0VY8M5/txug3qyyj7cx.jpg References: British Mediterranean Fleet https://www.armouredcarriers.com/task-force-57-iceberg-i-british-pacific-fleet daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397193288039-X6HDSRIKB0AGREV2DPPQ/Tenacious-Obdurate+Indomtable+-+sumatra.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397651220349-LISLBKTU7QBCNDAI8T4R/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I A Corsair lifts off from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. Note the aircraft-handling vehicles and "Jumbo" crane parked alongside S1 pom pom in the foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413174992170-87QCG0UFGESNX36C001R/2014-05-11+14.26.00.png Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398816844931-2SAVBFAYU6DXXC56BLH9/Gazette_Okinawa.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I CLICK on the above image to be taken to the original PDF. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400895598511-HNNSYH2NOA5ZLKDDADVI/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I A strike of Corsairs and Avengers is launched from HMS FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1427346123769-K7D8AUTI7OWQVMBK742X/1945_04_apr_may_hirara_a.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1427346129760-VFC1AREOXT9M6PRP58ZU/1945_04_apr_may_hirara_b_857sq.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1427346136743-G29JWFEFHXJRVXEQZRKH/1945_04_apr_may_hirara_c.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1427346140945-5Z83UZ37LY90YKVY3WNL/1945_04_apr_may_hirara_d.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400895547146-PLULU4DGBWB8AMGTVU2U/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Deck handling crew mill about aboard HMS IMPLACABLE, with a folded FireFly sitting on the dual-track catapult. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397651522441-6R1YSNSL4P8ZGBEXEHCN/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I HMS VICTORIOUS launches aircraft. The low freeboard betrays this as one of the original three Illustrious class carriers, while the clearly silhouetted director in front of the island is a modification made to HMS VICTORIOUS and FORMIDABLE before the Sakishima operation. The position of the radar mast reveals this to be VICTORIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397651426971-N4KKQM53A88TTJT2UOB8/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400895873661-05J02AHNQLSKCQEOIM8P/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I An Avenger is wheeled into the forward deck park, probably aboard HMS FORMIDABLE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397651272256-LPXPKKJL6GM2SLP3YW75/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I An FAA Corsair wearing Pacific Fleet livery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400895661593-202A0TS6781S4WIHWEQF/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I A Corsar on its take-off run aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1474422726946-VLIXMGFG1NTEG0K9CX1W/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I The battleship HMS KING GEORGE V following in the wake of the ILLUSTRIOUS early in 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400895729233-HNBHLRIKZ3LLA0O964Z4/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398564636087-C3II98W08ZPBHN1B3FQT/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I A FireFly from HMS INDEFATIGABLE displays flak damage to its right wing as it is manhandled towards the forward deck park by landing parties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397723613164-EUTM2FL0PDJI0SIE7OYT/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I .A Seafire is pushed into position as a strike of the light fighter and Avengers if formed aboard HMS IMPLACABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1497067762882-XE7YGXKXGUF35FJZQO11/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1497067632349-66FOCD1DFLI97G48Z65I/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400895826988-LOO9NSR30PRS3VDN6UDG/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I A Seafire III lands aboard an unidentified carrier. The lighter tone of the aerilon and wingtip on the left wing is not a specific marking. Carrier mechanics say such miss-matched panels were simply spares which had not been painted to Pacific Fleet standards.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1419544434666-OL6DMG7NQ6PIC0VP6RAF/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I The Royal Navy during the Second World War Looking down on the pom-pom director controls of HMS KING GEORGE V. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402467642056-06SRBIJ3ETCPJRENT1MI/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I CLICK HERE for historian Michael Whitby's account of Canadian Corsair ace Lieutenant Don Sheppard's service aboard HMS Victorious off Sakishima Gunto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414149406204-3L41Z6LMTD386ATK8HUX/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397652342899-RO9GLLLLGKOYBRA81RIA/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I The oiler OLNA refuels HMS NEWFOUNDLAND with IMPLACABLE in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397652201135-PHTO8373YOH50HIXGTVE/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398692966242-BIZ8MN5VYIC3LPBLZ5QJ/image-asset.png Task Force 57: Iceberg I One of HMS VICTORIOUS' Avengers ends up nose-first against the side of the carrier's island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400895978462-D5JQ3289OG80J9ERS0YA/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Mainteanance crew examine an Avenger aboard HMS FORMIDABLE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1497068029338-T9QXDJPPK1UTF38NVIRH/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1497067851557-PTWUZCIESGNWGVB0TZ4J/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450666946982-GRXGI9U7ATU7FH7AZTSV/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397737156188-MJEMQBVF0NT2MO9L1R9K/image-asset.png Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402140774961-YOBK9BX268WTYU59ZEDV/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397737029620-TRCEIXOTZECPYPJYBL5O/IMG_0047+%282%29.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397737036179-UKOUO0JMLRON8U581M6Y/IMG_0048+%282%29.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1469103086447-YKU2KXPUOR90VJM4OPI5/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400896110104-U7JUQFVRW6N0GHUH0I8I/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402139013938-05FLBIMEJ9H9AX6EBVH8/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397724029184-AECEN2C1BPVPDM0J0PMV/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Royal Fleet Auxiliary Empire Salvage refuels HMS Whirlwind and HMS Illustrious. Note the unoccupied "outrigger" pylon between the Pom Pom mounts and the 4.5in turrets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400896229510-0TO4TYZX5OOPF019B7EL/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_22-03-17.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Corsairs and Avengers are stowed forward as a strike returns to the deck of HMS FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475665514527-ZKUIZ7YCFHGZHI8DNOC7/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I 'Super Mouse' with its pilot Lieut (A) J H Clarke, RNZNVR, Otorohanga, NZ, and Maintenance Crew. Left to right: LAMA James McKenzie, Edinburgh; Petty Officer RM, Wilfred Price, Brecon, Wales; LAME A S Townsend, Hope, Derbyshire. Pictured in April 1945 aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/task-force-57-iceberg-2-ii-british-pacific-fleet daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397194164300-V6L16UESNIW16GF37LJW/IMG_0810.PNG Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400896464451-SCD9AC5R7K3JQEP3OW0G/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux Corsairs and Avengers aboard HMS FORMIDABLE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397738515651-R1YIP2O7T4K3KFC6AUKM/image-asset.png Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux USS INTREPID erupts after a kamikaze strike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397738690585-K0TUOXHAWMVCAC60QL4Y/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux HMS INDEFATIGABLE'S Seafires arranged on deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400896525685-VHUCVLMHDKVNWSBX9GNY/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_18-59-46.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400896563784-26ULBRZDMTPBCBEMNFJX/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_19-00-25.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400896578457-8CUA2NIAL9VSG134U40V/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_19-00-53.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400896597517-BERAQ308J4NQC7PV4RXE/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_19-02-25.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398565079104-AE1MN36PMBPHMFQEU4LT/large.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397738723979-4IE4XMHC4TQO14HQAR43/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400896689329-N6NG9K8PV7KK7U7WWR5Z/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux A FireFly launches from an unidentified carrier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397738365571-H7CKFHSQUYG4X0RWFHKK/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg I Redux https://www.armouredcarriers.com/task-force-57-leyte-layover-british-pacific-fleet daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397194632691-K2GJ07TGNXUTJNQ3T690/2100+leyte.jpg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397739104364-NTBQ7PS84UPBABSI26K4/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397739545317-UMIR0O2PFSEAX262KTQS/image-asset.png Task Force 57: Leyte Layover A Seafire is slung over the side of what may be HMS UNICORN before being positioned aboard a lighter for transfer in Leyte Harbour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414062220157-NVJWE4XYFZPM9MFR4K9R/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover The Australian War Memorial asserts this ship is HMS INDEFATIGABLE before casting off from Sydney Harbour on 28 July, 1945. It is, however, clearly the maintenance carrier HMS Unicorn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397739382393-3E0T0WVMW9P8NKX32PPB/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover HMS VICTORIOUS at Leyte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414041216459-KASLA2FT6YMU1PGJOS0W/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414041161363-2QU5C7CCCKGQGDSPSGD4/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1505113051353-P0UR140L5YZV3WRYF5SX/A+30160.jpg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover The Ship's Chaplain, Rev J Trainer, talking with the ship's US Navy Liaison Officer Lieut W E Rayne, on the fo`c'sle of the FORMIDABLE, August 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397739416877-ZCVXQB2YVEZ8WOFFY5IB/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover HMS FORMIDABLE is in the foreground of this picture of BPF carriers and cruisers anchored at Leyte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1399273992920-2FRHTG1I1RALPNE5F0R0/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414041623307-9M4VYFV4107Y098A6XWJ/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet 1941-45, during his visit aboard HMS KING GEORGE V in Guam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397739254030-TW2CVVMKGEQ9KKBIYJXZ/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover HMS UNICORN, a floating aircraft repair and maintenance factory, on station in Leyte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491300390088-MY6K5JSHF1Q9TEBM67F7/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397739211042-ACCX7X00ZVT1ZY4PVOMM/image-asset.png Task Force 57: Leyte Layover A Seafire is hoisted aboard one of the BPF's replenishment / escort carriers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402140899263-3NI1OLFPXLPCK7VUJQDY/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_23-22-49.jpg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402140902580-324JH0UMHAPP50BUS6CM/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_23-23-25.jpg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402140905803-8FNOQ34GW81O7BPWVI7I/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_23-23-47.jpg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491300879154-YRRAHZCVT1MRWRBT3HVZ/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover Repair and supply ships are anchored ahead and around the fleet carriers of the British Pacific Fleet. HMS ILLUSTRIOUS (center) is in a row separate from the other carriers as she is being offloaded of useful components before returning to the UK for extended refit and repair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397739734142-QSF1LOO5JALI1QF3A18M/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover A Hellcat is moved aboard a lighter at Leyte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397739760064-NOOOE667B8TBUY169FZK/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover A spare Avenger is moved between ships at Leyte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414042088347-Z44YL0L5ULDXPQGIIXT9/Task+Force+57+%E2%80%94+Armoured+Aircraft+Carriers+in+World+War+II+-+Google+Chrome_2014-10-17_13-21-42.jpg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397739319004-RXBKRMLYK28CWY2XNW1I/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Leyte Layover https://www.armouredcarriers.com/task-force-57-iceberg-ii-british-pacific-fleet daily 0.75 2021-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397194896290-THNL35D97A4ZB0MTT5EJ/Indefatigable-Flypast.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397781851518-AYE41SSXLSB5FTBBCP26/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397783969024-WBR7E3DL1W1B9X6Q8RG0/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398598747671-CQC84T3ZPE7AXPPHAAET/IMG_0567.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400896953942-ROQK3UXT80N26BC1292W/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398647108236-77N239ZAIU8JM8WVKOLF/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397790808326-V95V183ZWQ1K1L4N3K1O/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398599309632-OVJU0SICPJ401WFIZVAW/IMG_0718.PNG Task Force 57: Iceberg II Seafires aboard HMS INDEFATIGABLE, identifiable by the "slipper" style conformal fuel tanks under the fuselage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400897100449-PXMY3983CCTKOILH1SZ8/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398599737510-PCNVQNZIUM4IUM4FDRKA/Composite-Bridge2.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II This composite image shows HMS FORMIDABLE'S flight deck after the kamikaze attack of May 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1497068175467-WRHKGLT0Q54RX5TGMJMW/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1497068211466-BU0LY3MZY0CSN3YDAR73/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400897157771-ZCPNODQPWNTUAA2BCNCY/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_21-57-31.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398600498793-F1XBH4VKKX9V6P70DCFO/image-asset.png Task Force 57: Iceberg II All that remains of a burnt-out Corsair aboard HMS FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398600092738-9X2TYXC5WNOF3DOZR673/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397784035083-GDQYBTGV14QBL4VRK4IT/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II Avengers fly above the British Pacific Fleet. In the foreground is HMS KING GEORGE V or HOWE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400897240888-HAX0VE105H0O5F9BHPDS/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397784336282-V7ZR8OUZ65OBRCWCNDQQ/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II HMS FORMIDABLE being oiled at sea from a tanker. A destroyer is also being oiled from the tanker at the same time. Chance-Vought Corsair aircraft can be seen on FORMIDABLE's flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1623114411865-6Y08XQJ0N1G78HPSJJG0/IWM+A+30160.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II - Make it stand out The Ship's Chaplain, Rev J Trainer, talking with the ship's US Navy Liaison Officer Lieut W E Rayne, on the fo`c'sle of the FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397784508193-097QAS6FFJBNA6G9WX91/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II Corsairs arrayed on the deck of HMS FORMIDABLE - identifiable by her distinctive radar mast protruding onto the deck... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397784436463-S9TVSQXV26AGOJWN0FT1/Composite-Bridge2.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II A composite of two photographs showing the deck of HMS FORMIDABLE on May 9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413347576185-DJ928KSXHRKCW7GSS2CJ/Indom_Kamikaze_Direct_Hit_on_Flight_Deck.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1497068527880-M9Q8504WB7W4YHUM6408/Formidable_Cruiser_kamikaze.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1497068280820-XTI0HO4XLDM43M4WZKH1/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1497068359915-WN1SRCCFQ5HXCE6T9675/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400395333675-SSF95PHT442P2L99MH1W/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397784482342-ASUY1TLU3VQBF5C1NEO9/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400897445801-YWFST6W6TYB3WGNNGTYU/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397790881800-IIZ4ZZVWQPLS6IEBC412/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397977751486-5H2ZTDA5YTH7FS9DPKWY/IMG_1241.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400897541836-OOR4PJH0BGQE5UHQFOKV/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_22-36-58.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431048192691-XOOWHTRJX7VV4PROR70O/avenger_a.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431048201226-M0JQN1ZY6026TVGIPECR/avenger_b.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431048212306-1TA6CGMS4OK3ACCP00R7/avenger_c.jpg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400897677835-VN6ER28601WMCT3IJHVS/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397784802412-DJJS1CMZJGF2MLHLH586/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II USS Enterprise's forward lift is blasted high into the sky after the impact of a Kamikaze and its 550lb bomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397788819612-LH4L4CXA5ZA64HJJ3O79/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397790644440-HOGKT1ZLKZ3MS9AY6WGP/image-asset.png Task Force 57: Iceberg II The four active fleet carriers of the BPF in line-ahead formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400898532750-P5Y7I76Y3O37BPW9VO1P/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II A Corsair launches from HMS FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397788883321-XIYLWNVT5SFU5VVYGK8A/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II On board a British Pacific fleet carrier operating against the Japanese. Lieutenant Commander (A) Freddy Charlton, British Fleet Air Arm pilot, had a remarkable escape when the long-range petrol tank of his Chance-Vought Corsair fighter burst into flames (seen here) as he landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier. Both pilot and plane escaped damage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397789056078-HP4DOPSC1CLOZ9H55NYZ/IMG_1106.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397789062869-9X078ENWR04S3WPAN0PB/IMG_1105.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397789220826-XUG9UHPMGC3KS5L5CS6T/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400898317060-HMPWHT739JPLN87I3XSF/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1470821763107-FIAKM803WLDUN4RN4UQE/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II HMS QUILLIAM's collapsed bow after a collision with HMS INDOMITABLE. Photograph from Commander Derek Willis, who was then Secretary to Captain Richard Onslow of HMS Quilliam / Navy Records Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397790507608-6LCC9AYFV95MAVH16FAL/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II HMS Quilliam refuels at sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397791595042-L9UL7437UQT2SKWAHGFJ/IMG_0918.JPG+%282%29.JPG Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400898359807-2I2L5RSOJCO02BDJV007/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II Seafires aboard HMS IMPLACABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397791397412-1FUFX5KOWQRO5OKT9DOY/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II One of HMS INDOMITABLE'S Hellcats swerves towards the deck-edge after grabbing a wire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1474853516163-9UAT3GPED4MYORLEHR5Q/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397791480233-UQHQKH5U8C3L6TCFSPVE/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II Avengers in formation above units of Task Force 57's formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1474425724098-YFDPEMKDDB1CUUILOL2G/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II Bombs from British Fleet Avengers bursting on the runway of a Sakishima airfield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397791311324-IK47Y69R23OMROVH2HNR/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400898451405-47V85XMU4SATHW7Q2GP0/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: Iceberg II https://www.armouredcarriers.com/projects daily 0.75 2024-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1440440758289-RCT7XJ3MATHURAR30O6K/AA+OO+ILLUSTRIOUS+.+.+..jpg Doctrine determined: Armoured Flight Decks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1419834070660-OYEBLL6SE2CMDHNS70BM/image-asset.jpeg Doctrine determined: Armoured Flight Decks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1410321720297-633NIGJCJ6X3V3YH2B4F/image-asset.jpeg Doctrine determined: Armoured Flight Decks German propaganda claiming the sinking of HMS Ark Royal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394604247765-783S5DSQ2SFJ8PK9OY9U/tumblr_mlsetsKySj1rkz363o4_1280.jpg Doctrine determined: Armoured Flight Decks CLICK FOR LARGER VIEW: Ark Royal, with her two hangars, was designed with a greater emphasis placed on the need for Pacific theatre operations as Japan was perceived as the greatest threat of the early 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394604657085-W7M7OJON2P89UQ6GVXRV/tumblr_mqvsd7ij1c1rkz363o1_1280.jpg Doctrine determined: Armoured Flight Decks Skewed purpose ... The Blackburn Skua was a dive bomber given a secondary role as escort fighter in an era where there was insufficient early warning for effective fleet-defence interception. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394603868441-ZIARN0TBVK3CGVUVO4WB/tumblr_mjco89cUVY1rkz363o1_1280.jpg Doctrine determined: Armoured Flight Decks Victorious ... 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While the pattern was very similar on both sides, the port side appears to have incorporated more curves. The deck was 507a and the markings dull yellow. By January 10 the broken flight deck centre line had been painted into a solid stripe. I have seen no evidence that the forward round-down of the flight deck was ever painted yellow. Source: British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII, Volume 2, Battleships and Aircraft Carriers, by Malcolm Wright https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415938196315-6ATAZCKIKJHLZ9G2DPL4/image-asset.png Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394788852698-J82T40BXCI24NN7O96EF/Admiral-Sir-Andrew-Browne-Cunningham.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 First to fight ... Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham had a supreme sense of confidence in the capability of his armoured carriers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394777590076-SQ576UHOVVI2ICE0S9I5/tumblr_m93nofpQw91rpl538o1_1280.png Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1411856171208-3ZAPLU1L0I5P9LMWCJV1/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 St.G 2 Ju 87 B as flown by Major Walter Enneccerus for the raid on the British carrier "HMS Illustrious". Source: Jean Barby's Luftwaffe models blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1411856194622-VO2F548C51AXLELZDMDH/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1403156768477-0U4HXAPWR04J8YKA5MCH/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 British troops inspect a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka which made an emergency landing in the desert, December 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394772968816-QFNRAYRESSB59BHROCTP/IMG_0685.JPG Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398816206441-S9FE2EOLR2T99KKKXO8V/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 CLICK on the image above to be taken to the original PDF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394774919934-NKYY5WPSZM3TW4YK8HYB/60723_001.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 Tired and torn ... the wreck of HMS Gallant in Malta harbour. The ship was judged to be a total loss and her remaining guns and equipment were stripped to help defend the beleaguered island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394772884731-NLJPS3353R8NHFJU0H56/IMG_0875.JPG Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395545682465-OZYRNDIK8TZJHC96YAB6/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 Close escort ... An armoured carrier (most likely HMS Formidable) with the battleship HMS Valiant trailing during a practice shoot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1534603057621-FRDPOXW1OZYMHQPNH4NU/681757_hms-illustrious-1.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 Smoke begins to bellow from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS' aft deck as the opening moves of X Fliegercorp's attack take place. Painting by Kevin Clarkson @KevinStuart56, website HERE . This picture is © Richard Todd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394773056238-N9OK2AX0X1C54E4W7JTW/1941_01_10_b_Illustrious.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394773061869-3KXPUMGLQD6N32OR2IWS/1941_01_10_c_Illustrious.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394773068048-HQ3MCUTW1TEUSYZDWQS3/1941_01_10_d_Illustrious.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394773096341-HAYJUITZTSAW0YPT0ZV7/1941_01_10_e_Illustrious.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394773103324-R47YQCBAKT281Z11HWKK/1941_01_10_f_Illustrious.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394773111691-Z4QKQRC9ORJOMEWI8U96/1941_01_10_g_Illustrious.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394772763617-22FYPRKPSQG4BG5GFD8T/IMG_0891.PNG Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1604951646248-70JP522RVZ85T549NVYS/Painting1.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 HMS VALIANT and WARSPITE attempt to cover HMS ILLUSTRIOUS from the dive-bomber attack. Painting by Kevin Clarkson @KevinStuart56, website HERE This picture is © Richard Todd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478938460535-QBLAET74GOSWZ79CZ3TC/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 Smoke rises after a bomb bursts on HMS Illustrious' aft deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416003874694-R11AEVKAMM1PGSD30IBJ/image-asset.gif Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 A bomb bursts off the bows of the burning HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. The attacking Stuka can be seen in the far top right corner pulling out from its dive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1604951675202-8XSBFNF2Q8XNVPNRYKTI/Painting2.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 A Stuka pulls away as HMS ILLUSTRIOUS burns. Her PomPoms in front of the bridge are disabled, a Port PomPom has been hit, a thin wisp of smoke is seen coming from the buckled forward lift, as well as the 19-22in hole in the amidships flight deck from the 2200lbs bomb hit. A mushroom cloud of fire is billowing from the aft lift. Painting by Kevin Clarkson @KevinStuart56, website HERE This picture is © Richard Todd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394776275553-E72OTJ8PSJDGPYDKOH4O/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 In skies pocked with flak-bursts and waters rippled by bomb blasts, the burning HMS Illustrious is photographed by her assailants as an escort crosses astern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454739825693-MVMHGQBLGW1388QWILYP/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 This picture is the first in a sequence of two which shows the flight deck of ILLUSTRIOUS after she was hit on the armoured flight deck and in the aft liftwell. It has been incorrectly dated in the IWM archive. The white smoke emerging from the centreline is from the 19in hole created by the 2200lbs hit, while the grey smoke from the right of the image is likely from the burning bow. The toppled lift is in the background, jutting upwards against the smoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1545780748017-Q6RFXDCU6IJEGRJE3KQV/unnamed+%284%29.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 Puncture wound ... A snake of smoke curls out of the 19-22in hole in the 3in armoured portion of Illustrious' flight deck as the hardened steel steams from the inferno in the hangar below. The toppled aft lift at the rear is also venting thick smoke and steam. Click on the image for a full-resolution view. Picture courtesy John Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394783079650-1IF09SUNQ6PKMNI2IS67/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1604951706109-DSMTH1UGJ1WRYOXM0975/Painting3.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 Damage control teams aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS strive to respond even as the Stukas swoop. The PomPoms in front of the bridge burn, white smoke and steam vents from the 19-22in hole in the deck as the many hits in the aft lift produce a fireball. Painting by Kevin Clarkson @KevinStuart56, website HERE This picture is © Richard Todd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394775590824-FRKKXXTCVW9A0I64COBV/1941_01_10_j1_Illustrious.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1410323759160-88AX6JQ8Q2Z0T55VJIDW/large+%281%29.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 Captioned "attack on HMS ILLUSTRIOUS 10 January 1941", this picture may actually show bombs falling around HMS VALIANT or WARSPITE during that action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478934729259-0U5CJOILQ47YK42Z3M32/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 Click on the image for a larger view. This is a preliminary HMS Illustrious battle damage drawing compiled by the Norfolk Navy Yard. For more battle damage drawings and pictures, view the damage report pages linked to this page. Picture courtesy 'Researcher at Large' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1420622354061-ASYOOCULJPU5KFDMIEW4/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1495779750991-42FJBD2CMJFK3NE6GW3T/1941_01_10_l_Illustrious_BridgeView.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416004523434-4H8AKHY132NCPCCYKYHR/1941_01_10_a_ph_Illustrious.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 A Stuka is seen in a dive . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394776056781-CP3U2NAWZUGEW5IBJA3R/IMG_0402.JPG Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398439412693-K5ELF5AMK0BIAG3YKMOB/Ships+Damaged+or+Sunk+by+Enemy+Action_opt.jpg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 CLICK on the image above to be taken to the original pdf source. CLICK HERE to be taken to the armouredcarriers.com analysis of bomb damage to HMS Illustrious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458898189629-5Q9XGFVOLPQCOGZYRCCA/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395641497508-SX1XT88Y484VPVEAMZVA/image-asset.jpeg Operation Excess: HMS Illustrious off Malta, January 10, 1941 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/illustrious-blitz-january-12-21 daily 0.75 2017-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394777017713-I8U2E66HDWG13N59YUFV/IMG_1444.JPG Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394777131500-TUYYI8R51NBBUFKSVVNR/1941_01_15_ph_10_Ilustrious_pompom.jpg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 Blast effect ... the 'Starboard 1' forward Pom Pom gun sits jammed by the collapsed 'Jumbo' crane as the wreckage of "S2" Pom Pom mount still smoulders in the foreground. It had probably been struck by a contact-fused German General Purpose bomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460507950970-ISMB7EFTXT0QRZBTRAQG/image-asset.jpeg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394791371685-DSVOQNM16DYUHYPCSGCY/image-asset.jpeg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 CLICK on the image above for a larger view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394790400817-CS8Z0I148W3UGMJXONYX/IMG_0419.JPG Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 The tangled mess that was the mobile 'Jumbo' crane after being lifted off the "S1" PomPom. The shattered remains of "S2" PomPom is to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421186805266-2D131X19H3WOJ91O93TT/ADM_267_83_032.jpg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 ILLUSTRIOUS's forward lift, buckled upwards by compression from the explosions in the hangar and aft lift well. In the extreme background the aft-lift can be seen sitting upside down on the flight deck. There is no sign of the 'petaled' metal seen in the action photo of the carrier's steaming and smoking flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421187054143-LZF2U1U74W92BK65M20I/1941_01_10_p_Illustrious.jpg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421181141494-PKI66EV5OAGP1X9YIQBE/image-asset.jpeg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 Malta's crane hoists the toppled lift platform out of ILLUSTRIOUS's shattered aft lift well. The lighter-coloured square patch in the bottom left of the picture appears to be covering the 2200lbs bomb penetration hole. The sailor to its left seems to be resting his foot on a small raised section - roughly where the apparently 'petaled' metal was in the famous photo showing ILLUSTRIOUS's burning deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421187209681-NHP621GDTHAE9WK8LVDW/image-asset.jpeg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394790618686-AMC0TKCZBQYD3LZFYD5V/HMS-Illustrious-Malta-harbour.jpg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 Hard target ... the damaged HMS Illustrious sits in a dock under a large crane as bombs burst in the city of Valletta about her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1420797370935-B4RNCSJJ4HLUXTMFB1Z1/antiaircraft_gunners.jpg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 Stukas enter their dives above the guns of HMAS Perth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394790786614-FUPU77NO2G4QTZEMXHRA/IMG_0267.JPG Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 Tangled mess ... HMS Illustrious' crew examines the blackened and mangled remains of the aft lift well. The lift platform itself sits on its edge at the far left of the image. Work has begun to attach cables to it for Malta's crane to hoist out and on to the deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394790522972-40A6ADQ40KFLPGEC8OB6/image-asset.jpeg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424851807663-S6R3KZK2HK6Y78XT51OJ/image-asset.jpeg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397978236797-AUXZJQU14ZWQW9QS3DJQ/image-asset.jpeg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398643858287-TDUO0DRZGPWRDGT45ZHX/illustrious-1941-norfolk-port-dock-repairs.jpg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 Reconstruction ... Workers at the US naval base of Norfolk work on the splinter-damaged bow of HMS Illustrious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398439535312-S0O1IG9EC6PCZJ41HGHO/image-asset.jpeg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 CLICK on the above image to be taken to the original pdf source. CLICK HERE to be taken to the armouredcarriers.com analysis of HMS Illustrious' bomb damage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395642047151-H74VCAOFXWIX4500K7KS/image-asset.jpeg Malta Blitz: HMS Illustrious, January 12-21 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/battle-damage-to-hms-illustrious daily 0.75 2026-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421187385181-EH1O8L01B34WEH51HXIU/ADM_267_83_032.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491975380397-YQBVEUAA14E89AO6INY6/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview HMS ILLUSTRIOUS undergoing repairs at Norfolk Navy Yards. Picture courtesy Researcher at Large https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394836466051-9DTUVCZZVRJW67X3FTVP/Jamie%27s+Kindle+for+PC+-+The+Fleet+Air+Arm+in+the+Second+World+War+%28Navy+Records+_2013-01-05_22-52-03.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview Captain Boyd's sketch of hit and near-miss locations drawn while in Malta immediately after the attack. CLICK HERE to see his full, original report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/aadd4bc2-095a-4f72-9987-24b63beb262c/Illustrious_ProfileDamage_1.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/ccd48305-31f9-4210-a5d6-5e6758050e50/Illustrious_ProfileDamage_2.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Two of the Naval Engineers drawings of the damage sustained by HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. For the full original report and the accompanying drawings, CLICK HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1403334326798-UFOO9JDU8JWXIWNVI1FW/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478937182269-4WHSQ6P6OSA3N16VF433/1564%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478937181101-5U0QQNOCM5W9S28VC0J6/1563%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478937184076-J11QBGRZIBFZEQPZRA6K/1589%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478937185571-YHCVRTU6IIN3VFZK6F80/1592%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394833926199-9XFORAWYW2X0XFRDP3SN/%60Illus-Hit1%2BNearMisses.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview CLICK image for full-size view: Top left, the P2 pom pom mount. Bottom left, the compressed hull plates from the near-miss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478935498490-Y89MC18RKFJMF7GEN80W/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview An annotated photo from the Norfolk Navy Yard showing the damage done to P1 Pom Pom platform and the scar on the hull and armour from the bomb glancing off the side. Picture courtesy 'Researcher at Large' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394834043363-AL7NCZ1I3BH4Y9YI9DVS/%60Illus-Hit2.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview CLICK image for full-size view: Top left, the penetration in the flight deck. Left centre, the penetration holes from within the recreation space. Bottom left, the splinter holes as seen from inside Illustrious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398296720202-MB1R238UJA0J01L3APQD/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview The scarred port bow of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS is seen in this picture believed to have been taken shortly after arriving in Alexandria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394834234980-1SQ1E26804TNCYXWVHQ5/%60Illus-Hit3-2.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview CLICK image for full-size view: Top left, the mangled 'Jumbo' crane in front of the destroyed S2 pom pom mount. Centre left, another view of S2 mount showing the buckled weather screen between it and the island. Bottom left, S1 mount and the wreckage of S2 as seen from the island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478935885599-RGNZYTKZFMYN3EU022SN/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview This picture from the Norfolk Naval Yard shows the damage to the flight deck after the demolished S2 Pom Pom had been removed. Picture courtesy 'Researcher at Large' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394834340292-YM0INSPJAEWDEZFVIMQH/%60Illus-Hits4-5-7.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview CLICK image for full-size view: Top left, the mangled aft lift is hauled out of the lift well in Malta. Centre left, the shattered lift well. Bottom left, the tangle of steel in the hangar and aft spaces. BELOW: Norfolk Navy Yard pictures of the damage done to the aft lift and lift well. Pictures courtesy 'Researcher at Large' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478936257689-ST7WOJXS5U3Q7PDXQVW6/1569%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478936216318-WILDBV4EGD3NVFULUK5Q/1571%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478936220960-PDFU85ZAXRJ8WWVSBEUF/1631%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478936220571-MFZIER4V1ULEHS1KDJS4/G-266.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394834963953-P6D3RNNJ82UMLYZACN21/1941_01_15_lift-Malta_Illustrious3.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview Bullseye ... no less than three bombs entered Illustrious' aft lift well. This picture shows the detonation point of one of these bombs high on the port side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394860427783-RT1MM0LIHR2K59ASJGLA/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview CLICK image for full-size view: Top left, the armoured flight deck penetration point. Centre left, the penetration in the 3in armour with a hand for scale. Bottom left, the melted splinter screen covering the 4.5in shell hoist in the wardroom flat. BELOW: Pictures of the penetration point of the 2200lb bomb on Illustrious' flight deck, the damage to the hangar deck and sides, and to one of the fire roller shutters (up at the time of the hit). Pictures courtesy 'Researcher at Large' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1438163834648-1VLP4VV5B6WFW615Q57I/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview Click on the image for a larger view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1423641017657-WGQEVHAOGALKQFW5ZE31/jzwhvm.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview CLICK HERE: What did that? The enduring mystery in the famous Illustrious' battle damage photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/ee515498-ffcc-4a55-9c1c-c4dfc75b22b5/Illustrious_Hangar.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478926286139-06STO3FZK1943RNM2VP5/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview A preliminary hangar deck damage diagram in the US National Archive, showing the position of aircraft and the metal fire curtains. Click on the image for a larger version to display. Picture courtesy 'Researcher at Large' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478936579119-O1KTZB1RNSJPUIXDYNMT/1597%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478936579646-TUSWD2FXNW01SB3PTY9P/1582%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478936576321-1H434W61YQ0KU0VQJ18B/1623%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478936581768-CFQSAF09DQLCM696FV23/1580%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478936576130-RFLLC1AG4DNH7KTLLO0Y/1620%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478943135911-3J8H3LCD83IP4HHO4WX3/1586%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1455963149704-KOQT4MJJU34G5RJEP4DP/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview This unfortunately blurry photo of a page from HMS Illustrious' Captain's Proceedings Report for the action shows the positions of the aircraft in the hangar at the time of the attack. "S" stands for Swordfish, "St" stands for Swordfish armed with a torpedo, "t" represents the position of 'action ready' torpedo reserves and "F" locates the Fulmars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421187726892-O60QTFDRWNGYTXZHFRBI/IMG_0417.JPG - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview This picture shows the hole in Illustrious' 1in hangar deck and the wrecked ammunition conveyor and Wardroom passage below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401338087784-4ETPFUYTL048R7HDH2MZ/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421187960711-ZU04WW7ZJNP3YGMMLCYW/ADM_267_83_023.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview A view through the hole in the 1in Hangar Deck showing the holes in the Upper Deck (Wardroom Flat) below to the Link Trainer Compartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401336816175-6VLNHTREKLJF6Y20NAWC/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394879863454-9FSO9XMIZVQN70G9VOLK/IMG_1480.PNG - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview German officers point at the tailplane of a Ju88 carrying the outline of a British aircraft carrier. The picture was likely taken in March 1941, after HMS Illustrious had been hit - but also after several claimed hits against HMS Formidable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478945495456-XSLK725Q8OK6OUXJHUUQ/1575%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478945495673-7U7A03WX6IHFZA6F1MYT/1576%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478945497365-L466HSFV09IPCX22DO62/1594%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478945497792-NNLD2AFWIULDH678SF3S/1601%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478945499403-G5HDKA9FW12I23APF03N/1604%2841%29.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401333720674-OJM9SKAUN8JEIDANZ5ED/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394835101985-OTVE0001BZWTD1NRDPLO/IMG_0415.JPG - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview A thick tangle of burnt and distorted steel had to be cut away before Malta's dockyard workers and Illustrious' engineers could examine the condition of the disabled rudder machinery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394921823617-OD1OEAWBHDRRQBLL6EQ7/130.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394921830217-6P45FOUGOACXA1UF2CXV/1302.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/4fa882b4-2b5d-4058-8c68-536218a11ed5/German_Records_7.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/c4eaa043-7ea7-434c-ba0d-71ab41b10b43/German_Records_8.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/7fe9a98f-cd8b-4c1f-9ee8-947a6317cb7e/doc.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/7c742eec-01eb-42bc-8d68-9745515ed447/German_Airmen_SC1000_bombs_Ju_88_of_X_Fliegerkorps_in_Sicily_41.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out German Ju88 aircrew of Fliegerkorps X sit on SC1000 bombs while stationed in Sicily, 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/c6cf431a-ffa9-4b12-a1d3-8d04696a5930/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/52aa1872-f75b-478f-b6de-330026bfa106/SC500.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/2c401296-e5e0-481f-beff-a7c80d512013/SC1000.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/85018edb-78f9-4b4c-a484-17152b30415b/1800Satan_Hermann.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out This picture, taken in Comiso, Sicily, 1942, shows an SC 1000 “Herman” on the left, and an SC 1800 “Satan” on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/413e59b0-7930-43f7-9f78-47a24960dc2c/SC1800.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/fc1d43f5-634f-41db-825e-fa374fbf31b1/Sd1700.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/e9948ae7-8169-4fa8-8e6a-2cb2cc4576f1/SD500.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/c77e1b4f-339d-4f57-9209-fc211d9cf4f8/Ju88_SD1000_bomb.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out The caption on this Luftwaffe propaganda image clearly specifies the bomb as an “SD 1000”. But no 1000kg version of the Sprengbombe Dickwandig (SD) category is listed in formal intelligence reports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/40eb3975-3ce1-45a3-accf-88852a862df4/PC1000.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/55162344-b1ba-4829-a91a-9cad9177a6bb/PD500.jpg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424680290918-TFBKNWD0S642WO7PGCZJ/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Illustrious: Damage Overview https://www.armouredcarriers.com/operation-maq3-may-26-1941 daily 0.75 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394863221314-GKER4U5S14KVWNE4EFCH/Formidable%2C+Fulmar.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394865065812-2FQO4JEYNJUS16JXSOGD/UK-Med-II-12.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866064323-AEGAILW2WOSBBIGHG1ZC/Formidable+Fulmar.JPG Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394870273534-GJT8NXN43NDMGGSCMULK/Formidable_820sqnAlbacores.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398815745506-M6J5A96RVJWP3SSHGY8B/38296.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 CLICK on the above image to be taken to the original PDF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459129853357-QXMCBYJGB5MCBCEWERT8/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 Like HMS Illustrious, HMS Formidable had an unofficial camouflage scheme hastily applied in late 1940. The grey paints 507a, 507b and 507c were used simply as they were readily available. The flight deck was 507b with dark yellow markings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394865344392-UG0DEELLDJN60BRMUV5X/1000+kg+bomb+Halemes+c1.jpg.opt838x544o0%2C0s838x544.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 A Luftwaffe airman sits resting against a 1000kg (2200lb) bomb while stationed at an airfield in the Crete theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421103666233-5N23VV73Y0S5W4IABY7V/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394865170579-ZFB5O60LGK3LOCCGMS8B/IMG_0829.PNG Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394865587187-8PYGF7V8PJ5BX5V13SG7/IMG_0761.PNG Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394872038409-TX5LD5UBHY67Z0DS26H0/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866738526-QKZM060XOP8YKX4LIMNH/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394872237832-NDTULXV8B7QNTSKSP8K3/image-asset.png Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866135656-K170Z87Q6XG8QHRFDJED/Formidable_Fulmar_May42_Landing.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395547832690-QV3TLYVN50JM8MO0P1JC/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394871786652-NP8I93L7JAOLU7KHMGUY/Victorious_Fulmar_DonalDuckNoseaRT.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398815095526-MJQ038H4MZT3TEQ4LVRM/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866235490-MLFSHVIUDENRANR6T6EV/Aerial+shot+of+Migeod+zoom+c1.jpg.opt770x448o0%2C0s770x448.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421102692038-URJXF157D6N31VJX66AL/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 Puffs of smoke linger about FORMIDABLE as she opens fire with her 4.5in mounts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394872345899-I9OUX2MQM653OQ82I3NA/image-asset.png Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866288437-6OTZ1QAN6KM8LL94GC0U/Formidable+attacked+off+crete.JPG Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866302574-9OM4Y5NARNPQJRF4IVNE/HMS-Formidable-hit-by-German-bomber-01.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866311142-KOIH9YECT49ZWIKI5ZK3/38_hms_formidable_bombed_crete.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866317389-K79WS2CA7NMJSHH8UYB5/11-+HMS+Formidable+bombs+%2826-05-1941%29.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394873216596-4Y4TUKP2FP9DNRM5NW7M/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1486866362754-TOS0MYXRHJO9CGTC765P/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397904049607-WBT7APUUAEQ14IDF22BM/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866495520-BLTGTTUXXX9XU220TECD/IMG_0886.JPG Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394866501018-72XETHVNIL7OD68M1XDI/IMG_0887.JPG Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394873287258-0NRKGHVM87BX113A9X3A/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394872893723-19VG62192EHTSHMXCPVZ/3353156094_495f2f9bb7_o.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 Tail-end Charlie ... HMS Nubian in Alexandria Harbour after losing her stern to a bomb while on the screen for HMS Formidable. Another "N"-class destroyer is passing in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394872487060-4DF8X5YR96L4IMA27J9V/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431572611674-K7KWINX6IZLM1DUA56MZ/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 Fulmars of 807 Squadron patrol above a convoy in April 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398590281355-SAWE7OMV43UXZZL3M4KL/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 CLICK on the image above to be taken to this document https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394871335867-2EJNZ7JGS11YZE1NJBCG/scan0001-2.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398439781982-CQ6W0IHPLZ7L6I4PJ675/Ships+Damaged+or+Sunk+by+Enemy+Action_opt.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 CLICK on the above image to go to the original pdf source. CLICK HERE to be taken to armouredcarriers.com analysis of HMS Formidable's bomb damage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395546377290-4ZFD6156WSA9SUDD9059/scan0001-2.jpg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395641569390-4V9HT6H9XB7J0LLTJDMH/image-asset.jpeg Operation MAQ3: HMS Formidable, May 26, 1941 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/battle-damage-to-hms-formidable daily 0.75 2017-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394876422357-XPAYISA03I684S1NUB9H/illustrious_damage_2_forFORMID.jpg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501338230593-ATDOLOAE87AI7QAJ5S0F/image-asset.png - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415174354910-5WOVX8UX6NDXP1P7C1EN/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394877055872-67GBR5TI71WR844WV26I/Formidable-attack.jpg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394877929140-I3H3YVQJXU4E3TJRD09C/%60Formid-Hit1.jpg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398897464274-3H2HSEVEN1T9CEJCYVF9/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394878289969-178IYQAGEJI6NRAL6XYH/IMG_1533.JPG - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview Gaping wound ... the blackened void where the side of HMS Formidable was blown out in front and underneath of "A" 4.5in turret sponson is evident in this picture taken shortly after her return to Alexandria Harbour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401333947461-746WAINW4KGKLSF0GQPB/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394923147970-8AUGOFQ68B9C7YV792CX/image-asset.png - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview Opened to the elements ... part of the cavernous hole blown in the starboard forward side of HMS Formidable by a 1000kg (2200lb) bomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394877971552-YG624CUNBRH6CFREG5GL/%60Formid-Hit2.jpg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501337865621-PL1135QGK08AVPJ0ZOWF/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394878464327-36YVQ7VDO396PDBYZL74/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview HMS Formidable's crew look over a 4.5in gun turret during HMS Formidable's stay in Norfolk Naval Yards, United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394879277762-SBESOP3QDRQRB0QXMJUC/image-asset.png - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview German aircrew examine the tailplane "scorecard" of a Ju88 in March 1941, pictured two months before HMS Formidable was actually hit and two months after HMS Illustrious' ordeal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395034362980-DKHXZBHIQS7K5C8KQN1F/130.jpg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview War Damage to British Naval Vessels - Summary of Damage by Bombs to September 2, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395641930286-3ZHHGUWG5E4QKF7J9UTM/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Formidable: Damage Overview https://www.armouredcarriers.com/operation-pedestal-august-10-12-1942 daily 0.75 2021-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395132272608-XX9TSKE1E0PW3HBSRSGQ/IMG_0623+%282%29.JPG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1439892137532-R3THGJ5TLCAOGUTWAWTA/IMG_0740.PNG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 HMS INDOMITABLE from the aircraft carrier VICTORIOUS during the Pedestal Malta convoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1430195146132-3VGKLYL483IOAY4AX0TG/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Heart of the matter ... The radius of action for aircraft operating from Malta in 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1616664480483-3CO890YSREF64EXKYUX6/500128502.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398816583150-03CF1WU1T1SGXKOQAHON/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 CLICK on the above image to be taken to the original PDF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395132985698-O0H2VON0L963REB6PONA/6988074921_0ee450d0dd_k.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Hawker Sea Hurricanes and Fairey Albacores on the flight deck of HMS INDOMITABLE during a Malta convoy. Note the radio masts in the upright position and the crane on the edge of the deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1500169062140-DFDHQLXXDKQ6QVIHHO6C/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Captain T H Troubridge, Capt of HMS INDOMITABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415948433926-ZGDA94WV73WRDQH10NNI/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395207088790-Q6YWXJKFTTWDNY9U9F27/Indomitable_Pedestal_prelude.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Preliminary movements: 3 - 10 August 1942: Photograph taken from the after end of VICTORIOUS' flight deck showing HMS INDOMITABLE and EAGLE. A Hawker Sea Hurricane and a Fairey Albacore are ranged on VICTORIOUS' flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421062814880-0V00J7Q8UC1LR6H60RGM/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460509207454-OLGLZR7RHH4EJK4JKF2U/image-asset.png Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433492436944-THQOMKFYJ67WUD6SB9F5/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Preliminary movements 3 - 10 August 1942: HMS VICTORIOUS followed by ARGUS, with EAGLE in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395132907013-EUK7W1DXMZEKH7A0KA7B/6988074921_0ee450d0dd_k.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Preliminary movements 3 - 10 August 1942: Aerial view of some of the ships escorting the convoy. Nearest the camera is HMS EAGLE, then HMS INDOMITABLE and HMS VICTORIOUS and in the background are HMS FURIOUS and HMS ARGUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395210157740-9H95MKC6B0QEQOTN6DUF/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432304504073-FSDUJGUN1OHA6KOPLJE4/Pedestal+IMG_0523.JPG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 A Sea Hurricane on an outrigger aboard HMS VICTORIOUS, with HMS SIRIUS, PHOEBE, INDOMITABLE and EAGLE following. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415938471380-T08X3V6XHZ2RBSOPM4YH/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Source: Unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1494921425828-HQRRPQKRWK5HL9O2CLHA/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Malta Convoy guardians in line ahead: VICTORIOUS (from which the picture was taken) leading INDOMITABLE and EAGLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133050509-3W3IWR64SWFHMWI44C78/IMG_1446.JPG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432305434865-B7UUNLLCJ4NP0UK09XDP/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415955234191-Y3JABENB11CKTW2B84MC/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418546005790-OY4OIP0TBNKHEWO6U3E2/Operation_Pedestal_Carriers_Indom_Eagle.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 A view of the Pedestal convoy from the air, showing HMS EAGLE hauling out of the formation with cruiser and destroyer support for flying operations, with the merchant ships with either NELSON or RODNEY in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395208514813-3L3LNIN034BORZUCO7QH/image-asset.png Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460509668695-R8163ZUTTHMUGLTA1KQU/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 HMS EAGLE seen from the flight deck of HMS INDOMITABLE. Fairey Albacores and Hawker Hurricanes can be seen on the deck of INDOMITABLE, during a Malta convoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133142495-N4M0WMXS4LZ2Q3DUQ3VD/Victorious_Hurricane_ReadyFlight.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Six Hawker Sea Hurricanes of 885 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm with their engines running, ranged on the deck of HMS VICTORIOUS. All are ready to take off the moment an enemy aircraft is spotted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432304609471-IWCUWAR73SWXWLTD770R/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 A deck park of Sea Hurricanes protected by the crash-barrier (foreground) aboard HMS INDOMITABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460509837415-HKW0Q544RCYA4JKBKH3S/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 This photo is incorrectly captioned by the IWM. It is of HMS INDOMITABLE, photographed from VICTORIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395207472980-T79SMZERDNIDCIGGKVDY/hms_furious_13.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 A Spitfire taking off from HMS FURIOUS during Operation Bellows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395207508388-DQ9XM4YK9WOF21EBVPSO/727363.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Spitfires moved on to the deck of HMS FURIOUS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133183652-ZRTG52LBIHET9DRMLOKL/All+sizes++HMS+Eagle+Sinking++Flickr+-+Photo+Sharing%21+-+Google+Chrome_2013-03-11_15-21-20.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 HMS EAGLE's flight deck is awash as a merchant ship from the Pedestal convoy presses on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133383539-ZECT5DPKB4V9HO37EZ3Y/IMG_0189.JPG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133239313-B3WFHGLEHM5AJ6LXDN44/IMG_0191.JPG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395208234448-Z9YW3JMOUNNV41WO3XHH/IMG_0873.JPG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133251839-APG77HDBNS28POQH1283/IMG_0425.PNG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133590021-LAMOX0N4DA23CN1LWVTE/IMG_0872.JPG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421062901589-6RO2EM2ULJA3BFDTY5Z1/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Sea-Hurricanes on the flight deck of HMS INDOMITABLE during Operation Pedestal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395550464576-MN68Z40P82UQB9LNOGUU/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Refuelling a Sea Hurricane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133513340-RZRZZHUYRQPGV92NPIEE/IMG_0527.JPG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Preliminary movements: 3 - 10 August 1942: HMS VICTORIOUS underway with the convoy. The tanker OHIO can be seen off VICTORIOUS' starboard quarter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133810308-8RBBM7DIH7NV6S02APMH/large+%283%29.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Sea Hurricanes fly in formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432304745858-81MXOJU6VFM7ER2F25AH/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 A deck officer observes flight activities with the Pedestal convoy in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443263302639-H0CP6OK7NJQM2F07N6ME/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Deck crew position a non-folding Sea Hurricane on HMS INDOMITABLE's large forward lift. They had to be skewed sideways onto roller-rails to arrange them within the hangar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395208807727-C0RQ2RKS63F8BHRW312J/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 12 August: Air attacks: An Italian photograph of the convoy under attack. An Italian SM.79 torpedo bomber is in the right of the photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418546351635-EM3HSF6S2E61P1P97G3H/Pedestal_Indomitable_Hurricane.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Two anti-aircraft cruisers join one of the armoured carriers, probably VICTORIOUS, in laying down a defensive barrage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1440723930061-7G74QDF6V83756JMCKV1/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 A photo from aboard HMS VICTORIOUS shows a stick of bombs falling near a merchant ship, left, as the sky is filled with flak bursts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395134528762-2M8PFNU6FGQWCV4JN8BG/Victorious_Hurricane_overdeck.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 A Hawker Sea Hurricane of 885 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm flying over the flight deck of HMS VICTORIOUS prior to landing after flying exercises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395208657854-N7LGTJ4JP254L7GX20N7/image-asset.png Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395208917016-Q61X8ZDERW8MQG0V7Z53/The_malta_convoy_under_air_attack.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 11 August: The loss of HMS EAGLE and the first air attacks: A general view of the convoy under air attack showing the intense anti-aircraft barrage put up by the escorts. The battleship HMS RODNEY is on the left and the cruiser HMS MANCHESTER on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395209476354-EMUJ93DU8SB2KH6OZI3G/image-asset.png Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 This picture is believed to show the experimental low-altitude armour-piercing bomb on a Re2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418545782955-YA10H0SLMDVBMDHLE0U0/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 The sky is filled with anti-aircraft shells as the convoy steams on to Malta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395134065874-A8HVLNHMHXP93QA84KEK/IMG_0815.PNG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395134031264-T45QHCH4D8WMETAOZQYD/a2-IMG_1196.PNG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 12 August: Air Attacks: HMS NELSON during the air battles on 12 August 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395209089049-LW0E1A4NTYBV5NJE0LC3/image-asset.png Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395209564867-6T6DA6Y6VIJ57WNAA86W/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 12 August: Evening air and submarine attacks: A bomb falling astern of MS GLENORCHY, which was later sunk by air attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415957289768-EJ88OYRA365YOZRMB6MX/image-asset.png Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 A signalman gives the 'cut engine' signal to an approaching Sea Hurricane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395133979466-H9FMBBWI7UEPV7PJ4Z5V/IMG_1272.PNG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 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10-12, 1942 12 August: Evening Air and Submarine attacks: HMS KENYA under air attack on her return voyage to Gibraltar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395209965377-EEZLKF4Z7VS263MVYAE7/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 A destroyer comes alongside HMS NIGERIA after the cruiser was torpedoed on August 12. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395548170111-NJTTF0B8OS2ZCWA97TRS/large+%2812%29.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395209945621-NLOUPZ7HV6355TZMI79D/IMG_1445.JPG Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 Propaganda own-goal ... The tale of Ohio's courageous struggle has pushed the story of the air defence of the Pedestal convoy into obscurity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1547012579546-CFSMHV6ZE0RKCAPHM7CV/IndomitableRosythMay44-3.jpg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398439944432-8CLLH1MZ6YSOD59N4Z11/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 CLICK on the image above to be taken to the pdf source. CLICK HERE to be taken to armouredcarriers.com analysis of HMS Indomitable's battle damage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458898632512-XZMKGE051WS6DLSWRSK4/image-asset.jpeg Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable, August 10-12, 1942 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hms-indomitable-lessons-learned daily 0.75 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395134753885-HWHGFI1Y25ELG86M996F/IMG_1283.JPG HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1444202813976-C01HBDXLBB7OLZ539GNN/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1444202302049-JP7MBLLV5QQ0NFFMJ63C/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned Click to enlarge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1444202323560-CPOFYIGDGEZWOS70V4N6/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395549131578-I43UTJ9JNGPKXOSX8I63/IMG_1041.PNG HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1444116467409-EBPL73A2NV63YIG0OXP6/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned While the original caption states this is HMS VICTORIOUS as seen from the island of INDOMITABLE during Operation PEDESTAL, the identities are likely the other way around. (Only VICTORIOUS had the raised deck faring behind the 4.5in turrets, seen here with crew standing on it) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416111454630-ICUYCRURWC6GF9YM6B5S/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned Non-folding Seafire IBs and IICs stowed within HMS INDOMITABLE's hangar in 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416112407961-7818DFW20QL2L6MSLVL6/2014-11-16+14_55_30-War+and+Conflict+World+War+II+pic+20th+March+1943+Work+on+aircraft+in...+News+Ph.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416112427876-YP0TEW6L3Z9JC2KPZ225/2014-11-16+14_56_31-World+War+II_Aircraft+Carriers+20th+March+1943+HMS+%27Indomitable%27+on...+News+Phot.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416091246990-QVLFKFYQA91SKSUA8D2P/image-asset.png HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned 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The Type 281 air search radar entered service in February 1941 could detect a bomber at 115nm (132 miles, 213km). Specific reported performance was 88-115nm at 16,000ft, 38-50nm for aircraft at 3000ft., 7-9nm for 100ft. Range accuracy was 100yds between 14,000 and 28,000yds, with a bearing accuracy of 1 degree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1427254752231-O4ZLAVKUKUYYLUYC7R55/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1435044510794-GJPTV57QBEDL9C9TLDN7/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned HMS Indomitable, 1943: The Type 271 surface-search radar 'lantern' can be seen in front of the bridge windows (1), while the Type 72 aircraft homing beacon is the large drum at the base of the mast (2). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1435045112443-KSC682BULB72FBC9OKMO/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned The Type 271 'cheese' antenna, as contained within the protective 'lantern' style perspex protective casing. This first generation centrimetric (S-band) surface-search radar could spot a periscope at 1300yards, and a surfaced submarine at 5000 yards. It was accurate to within 2-3 degrees and 250 yards. Capital ship ranges were about 11nm (12.6 miles, 20km) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1435045523995-YN37H4CNBLQYK1BANB3C/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned A Type 277 antenna assembly. It was accurate to between 1000 and 2000ft in height finding between 3.5 and 40 degrees of elevation. On a capital ship, it had a range of about 23nm (26.5 miles, 42.5km). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466852054466-040EFQGK5ERAHVIO9DQM/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned Indomitable, 1945. The war has just ended and the ship is being given a thorough painting and cleaning before returning home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459815134291-XZOLMBIN2938ATU60ENB/large+%281%29.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459815185207-YLOOTPXIMFP1A1AE7BIM/large.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459815155904-WJ0V1W94WI4QR9UWZ2LQ/Indomitable_Profile_Underway.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459815461625-1VYJFPPCVBG49YWAHOMT/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397992447700-ADIE58PD88BMSM8QG8E1/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1427783269469-6320OB5UXKMDYWXGP2AU/Indomitable_Hellcats_.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned Indomitable in April 1944 carrying Hellcats and Avengers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1500169468092-D51DWG5925U2SQSBKZUZ/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1602893811061-HKH5OJJNXWFUNDOBX0TB/j9579.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1602893864457-V66QLU6Z5G5KVSCYTRGE/j9580.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1602893885588-X2EJDIE7RXIPCSP8UUQC/j9578.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1602893912418-OT1NTHV9N8XOEZVO8VKJ/j9581.jpg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401022953945-AAW7NKUMF6TJ45GGPLD7/image-asset.gif HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned INDOMITABLE identifying features. Higher freeboard than Illustrious, Formidable, Victorious. Rear 4.5in mount sponsons shallower than the similar height IMPLACABLE class. No prominent "tube-like" containers for the forward directors behind the S1 and S2 pom pom mounts. The 4.5in mounts have the slightly raised profile f earlier Illustrious types, not the flush-fitting roof as with the Implacables. The forward lift is wider than the aft lift (which is the same size as both those on the earlier Illustrious-class ships). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1472980037225-DW8LGVR8XAEIPER9IKS4/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable, Lessons Learned https://www.armouredcarriers.com/battle-damage-to-hms-indomitable daily 0.75 2021-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395294136058-WO5EEH34UCH6CI0QK9RA/IMG_0621.JPG - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630063359404-08E1PNUHUA0QVJOXFXQJ/Indomitable_Hit1.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview - Make it stand out HMS INDOMITABLE suffers a near-miss shortly after being hit on the rear deck. She has not yet suffered her second hit forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395294455299-2O97TZDWSSWRTL0H09E0/IMG_1632.PNG - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1412557789312-0LQPMVGKU8I74296ICYF/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395295510910-25KB39QGJD11U260O75U/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1592820745335-I7IQ6C68OEGVQV1WKV83/large_000000+%288%29.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview HMS INDOMITABLE on fire fore and aft after being bombed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1592820884605-WSIUWWMM8FQ3635IH86K/large_000000+%287%29.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395295384685-WV4HQ6HAI5XWNPIQWGGH/IMG_1040.PNG - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418547830269-YXZQB1XA1910HJYS0HQZ/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview The 14in penetration hole near Indomitable's forward lift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395044071893-YOJKWVM8PEE8172J8OQX/%60Indom-Hit1.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview CLICK on the above image for a larger view.Top left and centre, views of the blasted hull just forward and below of "A" Group 4.5in gun mounts. Bottom left, the buckled forward lift - forced upwards by the blast of the 550lb SC bomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395294414994-DUCPKWERUB2YJ5LDZQL0/Indomitable_listing.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview A large flap of hull plating dangles out from the starboard forward section of Indomitable, blasted outward by the 550lb GP bomb and subsequent detonation of the 4.5in shells in "A1" Ready Use locker.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395295060039-WPMCB4JBEQM444G64HCO/forward-damage.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395295084956-CP5Y0QUCP9DOP2HWY1UT/2486874ADM_267_84_IMG_0111.JPG - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395295071769-DKP8N83YH3CZGL91E77M/lift-damage.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459133722903-H0GOUPVT7I6Y7OHWMRVQ/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview HMS INDOMITABLE's disemboweled A1 turret, shortly after damage control parties doused the flames. HMS CHARYBDIS is crossing the carrier's stern. Picture: FAA Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395044029759-C0KQE5S4W2HHAYL70TY3/%60Indom-Hit2.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview CLICK on the above image for a larger view.Top and centre left pictures show the gutted section of aft fight deck. Bottom left is a view of the wrecked interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395295148188-C7LAAGRWZTLWDOV6ZC1Y/aft-fire.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1592820553014-A7BPPPDGUL0986I2N3AS/large_000000+%289%29.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview HMS Indomitable, ferrying Spitfires immediately before leaving Gibraltar for repairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395294346517-PU92M2QRX9OU8GS6M9L8/image-asset.jpeg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395295335162-BE1WNJB3NX6B6V2PNS94/IMG_1550.JPG - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395821609368-3TUHDJ2DFF2CMM3QUON5/324-325.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview CLICK on the above image for a larger view. Pictures show the peppered port hull plates from inside the wardroom and outside the ship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1403156199971-PN26SOEH1MYGAV11XB3G/%60Indom-Near2.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview CLICK on the above image for a larger view. Pictures show the damaged port hull plates from below the waterline after a 1100lbs "near miss". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421062064142-ARFQWMEYNQ8C2OV463YZ/large.jpg - HMS Indomitable: Damage Overview The ship's company of HMS INDOMITABLE pose for a photograph after escorting the Malta Pedestal convoy. The buckled forward lift can be seen in the left foreground. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hms-illustrious-armoured-aircraft-carrier-design daily 0.75 2024-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1394687698832-EW3KU8ZB0CFOIFQ8R0X8/1940_00_00_Illustrious.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1461804798406-SHB6MHH1NTSXTE07CL9B/IMG_0770.PNG HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401022497629-AZ07XTEOAJE0HW7962HY/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development HMS ILLUSTRIOUS in her original 1940 overall grey guise, starboard profile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401022476832-0QU76G8TSH4R2M06FTOJ/Illustrious+1940+deck+Warship+Profile+No5.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, 1940, top profile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1476056982903-P2X1OZX2M55OHS6PHW3D/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Source: British Aircraft Carriers 1939 - 1945 (New Vanguard). Click on the image for an enlarged view. Illustrious is shown here in her January 1941 camouflage scheme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451719977215-CUO9U95IED3PT0UDWD67/SCAN0087.JPG HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415963572321-SI5XIM24YWSV0KHQIYBA/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450667757051-8KPIXH2CJYSEPIXVNAH0/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Not the "dodgems" st Southend, but the cars which manoeuvre aircraft on the flight deck. December 21, 1944: "Aboard an Eastern Fleet Carrier". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415963595199-394PI2U0NWGLLWS6USOA/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418508653813-JDVCR449XGCF4K4W6996/Victorious_Hangar_Fulmars_Albacores_Tirpitz.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418508817643-ZH8AG70LCQE5U66109MG/VictoriousAlbacoreHangarFeb42.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418508520220-4O89OEDY4QRELMWKOC7Q/large.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418508572571-882POXJKOUYQ1NSODAKE/VictoriousHangarDec41.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418508538618-B3CST9512WAX8LD5POTP/VictoriousHangarFeb42+%283%29.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418508531434-LV3Z6GZ47VU27P6RW2MW/VictoriousHangarFeb42.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432690519391-4LEJ63ZA45GHR99SRE1Z/Albacores_Victorious_Sept42.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416051808601-SM4DQT12H09ICMVH0FSS/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415960588907-8HBZOEKXZPIMXVZ39RMO/image-asset.png HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1476056649611-KYF2YQEJUNECF1KHGUWJ/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Source: British Aircraft Carriers 1939 - 1945 (New Vanguard) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450666426662-KC3OL03HRO3C4TVT72TD/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development A tight fit; Corsairs in the hangar of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. May 1944, in the Indian Ocean with the Eastern Fleet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1718001649177-DKLJO1QPEERR4OKH4J0W/Albacores_Victorious_Lift_Sept42.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1718001670227-9N79U51AUSFKMGYI53F3/download.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1718001682389-78H67MYTQEEOZEY3A6QC/IMG_1313.JPG%2B%25282%2529.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400385963077-KAMQNL7Q4ZWFZREICH8G/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-18_11-25-57.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400385986926-FVTB02MOT90NSEAYV7CO/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-18_11-23-16.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development 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FORMIDABLE in 1941 while undergoing repairs in the Norfolk navy yards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443569423101-673Y9C7ZGD1UW10XM7E8/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395725520529-YOE3IZRFA44JACFSRCRT/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398731979885-J4WRB5OP86IPM09B3VX8/IMG_0769.PNG HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416051379809-PBOQGFMLNSJMI8CVPRC0/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Source: Anatomy of the Ship Victorious by Ross Watton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1476056372687-0DWS9VVXAGA81YM2MNYS/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Source: Anatomy of the Ship Victorious by Ross Watton 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This image show how their firing arcs swept over the flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400031001208-6Z8YMX9I4M4MDTY0T43C/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-14_10-57-53.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400027370291-2AQ0CLCUSAZ1ZBWN2BA1/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_23-14-04.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400027379048-OP3O25FE4TJ9HHZHDPUW/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_23-20-45.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400027414638-MOIWZ29XWSXWA2TVOHCS/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_22-13-57.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416814108960-POT6GXNQI8MZGXMUFJUH/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-20_23-19-54.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416814525887-URDFSIQW8GYIZ61ETZ5K/IMG_1286.JPG HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1430194553283-UO8KN7DJDZ6HHEBNQWFX/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development A flight deck scene made up of a series of screen captures from a 1940s newsreel film aboard one of the armoured carriers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1505112361408-IXNU9FEF3LIRDRV0EE3R/Bombtrolley.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development Steward K Mallinder, of Sheffield, wheeling a 500 pounder during bombing up on an Eastern Fleet armoured carrier, 1944. In the background left deck crew can be seen standing around the bomb hoist chute in the main island, with more 500lb weapons on the deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1505113592918-DPR11L25NHDA32CDC3PR/A+8407.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development Some of the 4.5" ammunition being struck down into the magazine when ammunitioning the ship is in progress. HMS VICTORIOUS, April 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1505117783319-BGHBQZSC72905GKEQIQ2/Magazines-cutaway.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1505117753788-CD7094U437OWHQP2E8P6/Magazines-sideview.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development A) 40mm PomPom magazine. B) Bomb & firework rooms, 4.5in magazine. C) Bomb and warhead rooms. D) 4.5in and firework magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1505104794528-YPCCY8M5WFER2342YDSF/large_000000.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development Busy scene on the flight deck of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS during de-ammunitioning, February 21-22, 1943, at Greenock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395724691067-Q51D50VCPZ6XKCLPCYDV/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Royal Marines in the transmitting station of the aircraft carrier HMS VICTORIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460683524726-RJTGII3S5OAJ6B17J8RC/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1418799949019-BXSB8UUGX0BE1OL2TI7Z/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development The fighter direction instruction room housed in an old cider press at a Royal Naval Air Service Fighter Direction Centre at Yeovilton, Somerset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1440724301178-EBTXELXR8O3I7BDZ4271/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development HMS VICTORIOUS, September 1942: The Fighter Director where the ship keeps in touch with her fighters in the air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1440724077535-Q7KF855D4XSBNFBUKRO4/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development HMS VICTORIOUS, September 1942: The Fighter Director Office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1435042470061-GH9M0HMZWVT6IK5IX1X4/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424575528296-448R5HBRVAWR8SCC6NFO/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Inside the machinery control room of HMS VICTORIOUS, December 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1395725115399-F8O2U1DZSUXLVZGDIK7O/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1439879982750-1CFQW6PA6ISX1HF987YB/large.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1439879991333-MI5P7I4BT165K83CLMF6/large+%281%29.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1500178645224-9BTIZ67Q2VBRZG6QCIOT/large_000000+%284%29.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development HMS VICTORIOUS steaming through a rough sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421103362001-8LTX9GZWOK0I4JV1L7AN/ColourFormidableNovember42-3.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421103371155-ET88YN13ONBGZFEQCMSC/ColourFormidableNovember42-2.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421103379066-0TUW93R8E12I6YN1099J/ColourFormidableNovember42-1.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400385442168-U8XAH1YBH9MM1TAJC0CA/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416010628779-V1KPS51SX43EZ1Y7NIFE/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Fairey Albacores of 820 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm being ranged on the flight deck of HMS FORMIDABLE whilst she is on active service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416009487778-ZA9559JD2KF1MA6S2AUW/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development A flight of Martlets prepares for take-off aboard HMS FORMIDABLE in the Mediterranean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416009431232-L7Y3NL0ISPDOPWBVQSYS/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development A range parked at the forward end of the flight deck of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS in the Indian Ocean. In the immediate foreground are Grumman Martlets and further forward are Fairey Fulmars and Fairey Swordfish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1469746137166-CLEAX5GMURZ1MIOYD8SQ/download.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1469746137224-34QGGV4BCVSTK9GCC67X/download+%281%29.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1469746345788-C9WP7HLEHYD12IM0QU25/carrier.JPG HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1469746359476-EYJR7NKYZ7I06Y3BZYIC/Enterprise-hangar1.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450666757693-TGZQA59YW33TJML10NHF/IllustEastFleetDeck.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450667368196-03XYIR0CGXVEMMF0744V/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1469747857556-X73ML9MCTG4TCTDIIPG8/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Early Seafires on outriggers aboard HMS Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450677197398-3QLGE39PNJ3TG43VB7UR/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development August 1944, on board HMS Formidable. Aircraft of the FAA carried out raids on the German battleship Tirpitz in Alten Fjord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1509237282906-3ZHW3JF70JDAZ9LP4IGT/2016-03-04-14.54.10.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development From the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier Handbook 1943, courtesy Dr Alexander Clarke. Configuration shows Albacores/Swordfish and Martlets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501337513361-F6DV4KM4HMZLOTAARR8F/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Seafires on outriggers aboard HMS FORMIDABLE in 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501337121887-TI2E9OVBEGJW9DDKY5O9/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Range of Martlet IV's Fairey Barracudas and Supermarine Seafires on the flight deck of the ILLUSTRIOUS in the North Sea (July 1943). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1500171161075-WIR1067S3WM4UZXR596Z/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development Mis-captioned HMS INDOMITABLE by the IWM, this is in fact VICTORIOUS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416009646666-OYSUUMNIZB2VDJJE2B8W/large.jpg HMS Illustrious design and development Fleet Air Arm Chance-Vought Corsair fighters, with Fairey Barracuda torpedo bombers behind, ranged on the flight deck of HMS FORMIDABLE, off Norway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421101910280-OMX7OXMQR037NSDM80P3/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1482853796895-RTGOH4IG9GLNIDF7GCVG/image-asset.gif HMS Illustrious design and development ILLUSTRIOUS class 'Batch One' key identifying features: Low freeboard, large flight deck round-down at rear (early war years) Two Pom-Pom mounts forward and rear of island (early to mid-war years). 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1602894848741-ZU1H94XZWIJFBOJ2WOJO/j9659.jpg HMS Indefatigable & Implacable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1602894737365-LDSOCRUL6153AQBY345H/j9660.jpg HMS Indefatigable & Implacable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1602894821076-7COOHPSWODPCO4PNV5UJ/j9661.jpg HMS Indefatigable & Implacable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1602894682525-ZQ7EPIUT3GWIC53AOO1P/j9663.jpg HMS Indefatigable & Implacable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1602894796081-5NX3PB0NID09WCQASFR3/j9662.jpg HMS Indefatigable & Implacable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401022998309-J8GWPAS8AZJAJ7DTONFC/brit_c10_e04a.gif HMS Indefatigable & Implacable IMPLACABLE class identifying features: Higher freeboard than Illustrious, Victorious, Formidable. Deeper rear 4.5in sponson than Indomitable. Larger stack than the earlier ships, and longer island. Prominent raised "tubes" holding directors behind the S1 and S2 pom pom mounts. Only one pom pom (S3) behind the island. 4.5in gun mounts "flattened" to be flight deck height. Like Indomitable, the Implacables have a wide forward lift and a narrow aft lift. The island directors are one means by which Implacable can be identified from Indefatigable: Indefatigable had her director at the extreme rear of the island while Implacable had hers positioned forward of the after tripod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1472979573154-0UUGLEACCGWYPZ93O7K5/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable & Implacable https://www.armouredcarriers.com/task-force-57-british-pacific-fleet daily 0.75 2024-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397190547038-052ZORDHORYC1NAR415D/IMG_0071.JPG Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1476360194422-7Y0GQ9MEXRJCTX3N1ZM8/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414138996880-1JFYDMQOLMKEIUJMPK6M/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet Vice-Admiral Philip Louis Vian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402100190835-SVBF2EDB3GF5XV7YP5ZP/large.jpg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser became Commander in Chief of the British Pacific Fleet. Photograph taken on board HMS DUKE OF YORK at Guam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413503839096-U63EAEF0Z8TD3E0LACE8/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet The escort carrier Ommaney Bay burns after being hit by a kamikaze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413337250969-D5X58IQQPWINHDIG0WL0/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet Japanese plane (Zeke of Oscar) in Lingayen Gulf, diving on the USS New Mexico (BB 40) from astern. Plane struck the port side of the bridge three seconds later. January 6, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397721409872-BQVOHTFSSE4CVEBMN21S/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450401276740-EUYQUEN4PS4D155B5VTM/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet HMS Anson in Sydney, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414138418549-GJEDQSIQ7L80KC9RXM87/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet Admiral Nimitz (left), Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser and General Spaatz take a tot of rum with the ship's company of HMS DUKE OF YORK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397721541322-2BT1DB09SZ7E4AN5EI0O/image-asset.png Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397722318937-THSLXY27GYC9GWFXE7CN/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet HMS Argonaut at anchor in Sydney Harbor, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397721611797-POYRPP115NDKRQ26XXQH/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, GCB, KBE Commander in Chief British Pacific Fleet (right) watching his old flagship HMS DUKE OF YORK as she entered Sydney Harbour, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402101573588-0L6X8JLK6A80U6Y0XOB0/Manus+Victorious.JPG Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet One of only a very few images of the BPF anchored at Manus. HMS VICTORIOUS in the foreground, with elements of the Fleet Train and possibly HMS INDEFATIGABLE in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398692756698-1KQUC15NJ5OEMYAAJLLY/zIMG_0656.PNG Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet Insurmountable hurdle ... An FAA Avenger in close company with a USN Hellcat in the last weeks of the war when the two fleets worked together. Some political sectors in both the UK and US saw such close operation as something to be avoided, at any tactical cost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397723137850-OXQDHKZMPOONLSL6DL6P/image-asset.png Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet The hole in the aft section of USS Randolph's flight deck after a kamikaze attack in Ulithi harbour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466852483023-ICS1Q8ENW1R8N9MXHMPT/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet FAA Hellcats flying over the Fleet Train, the supply ships which service the warships of the Pacific Fleet. The ships shown include oilers, storeships, ammunition ships and their escorts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414143358106-BSSBD9MHRGX0H6RYFFBN/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414150834343-AQBDOD5P58HUPFQZVN2T/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414150548492-TAJ61LXKS1TO6R1UWAU0/IMG_1263.JPG Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet The destroyer HMS ULYSSES refuels alongside a Royal Navy auxiliary as a carrier, either HMS INDEFATIGABLE or IMPLACABLE approaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1399274609431-QPHAAPU5UHD7CLX4B13Q/300px-Vice_Admiral_Rawlings_WWII_IWM_A_28075.jpg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet Vice Admiral Rawlings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398219789935-RGKZP2KEIWHS60JDH720/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet Seafires and Avengers are ranged for a strike aboard HMS IMPLACABLE. This carrier did not arrive until after the Sakishima campaign. Her Seafires can be identified by the large tear-drop drop tanks adapted from RAAF Kittyhawk stocks. HMS INDEFATIGABLE'S Seafires used the RAF's conformal "slipper" style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397722962431-IMAWQ0PZG8N45IVI7IWW/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet HMS ILLUSTRIOUS' FAA Avenger crews examine intelligence information before a strike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397721947656-C03M74GXYJZFNCZF7WOR/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1476360251943-C849Q6SLIZR0VM0RHX0E/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414148620984-B0QS7O8UXVOUMRMF78NV/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397723858552-4TI7O7I4U542CEMI6TPV/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet HMS VICTORIOUS and IMPLACABLE seen above Avenger and Chance-Vought Corsair aircraft of HMS FORMIDABLE as the ships turned into position. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414148560294-6DHOLCFXGIBN26PDLX7T/image-asset.png Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402131816977-YUQWR93T5CDKMUDTYPWS/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet The "X" designates this as a Corsair from Formidable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475923502427-8GBUAPRUKKLXU4U2WQC3/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397722038678-LY1RT4JUB8JQ0VA3YHIH/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet USS Franklin burns after being hit by one, and possibly a second partially detonated, 250kg (500lb) bomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458898418085-WYCKG85UQP6H94RLAD94/image-asset.jpeg Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1430784846467-8CQZ8V96KS3WZSCP6QPV/image-asset.png Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hms-formidable-may-4-kamikaze daily 0.75 2023-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397203644679-B9JFI51NX4FM0TUB618D/Formidable_Fulldeck.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083056727-L25RLOWIGKXWUYLC7GZ4/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1577401568943-SDGO05GPHUSG4J8XFMS0/61hvh0sthlL.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 H.M.S. Formidable: the Sixth Royal Navy Ship of the Name : 1940-1953. By Andrew Ramsay Amazon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398087247310-M9SH1IH3NLLCRIXDWXM9/image-asset.png HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401148316051-JV0NTNR08Z1HRUDSHX0U/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083099849-4ALKECY1SEDN6HRZZFLX/image-asset.png HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083126928-8ZJ9W9DCR0JSPG2ADJEL/a.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083134717-QYKTNQNP4ITG9KB5IHO2/b.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083141599-ASMUJMQS6UNTLSB14TBQ/c.JPG HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083188478-MXSOU8DK4XRBJ3Q6D9VQ/1.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083205969-WVPL7S25EXBTEFFHK9U6/2.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083218790-K0WOWPDLSO3MX8H22P45/3.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083691348-R0K6WOUPDPGT5YW514DB/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 The 'dent' at the junction of three armoured plates on HMS Formidable's flight deck, with debris blocking the separation point to the hangar below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083767924-B3EJC6DH85GIY74UD2ZV/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083342736-H4J0BGMR1JJVB1G878Z6/IMG_0263.JPG+%282%29.JPG HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083344629-5HLD25BAHOMLJXDG85IG/IMG_0261+%282%29.JPG HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1598344219640-OPIFZXO4NS7B53ELYGS3/IWM+A+29723.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083335642-REET77BZONVRMWIUJU9O/Imp_Formidable_ps.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083416722-AOJCCR9O9PZ3U9CNTBL5/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083494074-YNI9GRQCBWGO4OEL2VP5/formidable+or+indomitable+off+okinawa.jpg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083520626-SP2XIGC3RNC7DCJAKZ6G/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398125124959-9OUY00WUX808LNEHP9JI/image-asset.png HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398086201080-KV6NWCHG5MSGAZQYUQ2N/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1411289043097-TJ4TT5ZVXOPC3LLU7LKZ/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083604865-E2I2YV5G16W1NEBV6371/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 Rapid-set concrete and timber-infill made good the 'dent' in HMS Formidable's armoured flight deck within hours of the direct hit by a 500lb bomb-wielding kamikaze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401332575824-LLYPCU4QDZHK8D07QFEG/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398083272252-VAH8ICPBVY3CKPGB5BHJ/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 HMS Formidable on fire after the kamikaze strike. The three tones of grey in the smoke rising from the ship tell different stories. The grey is from the burning wreckage of aircraft and fuel on the flight deck. The black oily soot is from Formidable's funnel. The white is steam being vented via emergency systems from the damaged central boiler room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416560826375-K1DFX6DOH851GBWX1ZRH/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable, Kamikaze 4 May, 1945 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hms-formidable-may-9-kamikaze daily 0.75 2016-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397203987064-OKXJVCU6GU5XLAJX84GL/IMG_0038.JPG HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398084684351-1PZC6D9YT5TDESNI2V81/4044_538_Formidable.jpg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401148408077-8FGN1TPKK5PCR3EA2SXX/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1476670158966-SE1X8G0UDIGAVVNCYM0Y/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 HMS FORMIDABLE vanishes behind an eruption of fire and smoke after a kamikaze and its 500lb bomb struck the armoured flight deck amidships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398085218093-F1EF820APROMT65MRLWF/Formidable_from_Indomitable.JPG HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398085243842-8XIZLUF84DTSVGNCSNXI/IMG_0464.JPG HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1455366807465-Q7YA0KS2PJWQ5ZGSCRGA/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 A slight depression and blistered armoured plate was the sum total of damage done to HMS FORMIDABLE by the May 9th kamikaze strike. Top left, a sweeper is manning his broom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398136143630-V9TBQQ37MGZ7FNYZ4EXW/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398084910758-4DE9F5G7KUK1N49TDKG2/Formidable_deck_fires.jpg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398084916903-XZITVH9PSJ3L3E4R1T9X/KAMIKAZE_Formidable_deckfire.jpg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398084929629-WFF3ZZBA4M83FHRKI1ID/Form_4May45.jpg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398085453109-MHN2LYDWLX0XMDQYONHO/image-asset.png HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398084985502-NTMSZTC9SBF5Y936PPG4/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398085399158-VDNTMYVK8ZSGN5VQ1EO8/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401334448165-TATKCDTAR44SNXLNUH9F/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398085594803-D448TAXQ8MJTKY9SYVJ6/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414149791411-JZBXABLXKRJ5MP1T5G9W/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 Corsairs in British Pacific Fleet markings sit inside HMS FORMIDABLE'S hangar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414042179718-RFK6UWUVF3L8P2X1R64T/Formidable_Sydney_Boom_%28AWM_P00444-047%29.jpg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 HMS FORMIDABLE passing through the Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net in 1945. The blackened funnel is due to scorch damage from a kamikaze attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398085691012-X0ZXNV46S6S3X7CFQQS6/formidable_drydock_Sydney.jpg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398084668026-QR7JITNKMCIEELRNNW0R/image-asset.jpeg HMS Formidable: Kamikaze, 9 May, 1945 HMS Formidable's aft flight deck as seen from HMS Euryalus during an underway replenishment operation during the British Pacific Fleet's deployment off Sakishima Gunto. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/indefatigable-kamikaze daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397195467776-NU19VOV9LH4H2VC3YNB5/1945_04_01_kamikaze_Indefatigable.jpg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398076547627-4QZE49AJI8ARWAJ65V9Z/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414053423177-DVCVR7HLWC2L9VXR50GD/302418-Indefat-1945.JPG HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 The windscreen is raised before the partially lowered forward lift of HMS INDOMITABLE, near which are two Seafire fighters. Another Seafire is abreast the island with others further aft in front of eight Avenger bomber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398076629212-6K95BMFPMTABTRH4ZMUF/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 Indefatigable burns after the kamikaze impact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398076567508-S77ENNHI7R6QBJO6LUI0/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398076583657-2DUFQFOXLFSX4R1WNDO0/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414053555066-6FQNI3K12GSFMPQNQSBU/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 The folding wings of a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Seafire are unfurled hand over hand by mechanics aboard HMS implacable. Aircraft used on a carrier must have folding wings to enable the planes to be stowed in small hangars below the flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398076602638-LZE77WD0S31EY7FDEJ56/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401334174815-UNNAS0K85FJZ8N49A5Q3/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398076794215-RXRUFBTIKXPKZZON4T57/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413182456889-0I4NZTXH83FL7LCUDI1K/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398128571770-MZHHZ1KYTOHBRF0OP4AK/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398076891264-Z5N7G2AX0NGELUOJXBR8/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398076731833-C1RMH2OL0JY4LC10BH9J/image-asset.png HMS Indefatigable: Kamikaze, April 1, 1945 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hms-victorious-kamikaze daily 0.75 2018-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397203290088-GGQ0KVYLXTEHK186CITR/Kamikaze_hit_May_7th_1945.jpg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398079646798-F167OY53D5ME7FRJWILQ/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 A close view of HMS VICTORIOUS' island in 1945. The position of the aft-mast was different in each of the three original Illustrious-class vessels as they were a last-minute addition to the design. As a result, it is a key identifying feature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401858687352-HTKC36HG2CHS1YZC73U9/Navy+Blue+Fighter+Pilot+%E2%80%93+Episode+One++Vintage+Wings+of+Canada+-+Google+Chrome_2014-06-04_14-38-33.jpg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 CLICK HERE to view an in-depth account of LT Don Sheppard, RCNVR, the FAA's only Corsair ace who flew from HMS Victorious between March 1944 and June 1945, by Michael Whitby, Senior Naval Historian, Canada's Directorate of History and Heritage-D’Histoire et Patrimoine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402218692601-WFU483TYCSGI3UPIB989/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 CLICK HERE for Part 2 of Michael Whitby's three-part series on Canadian Corsair ace, Lieutenant Don Sheppard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1462871740076-ZEEZ8GLXQAPV8CUEIY4D/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 A kamikaze explodes in the ater alongside HMS Victorious, as seen from HMS Illustrious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1462871794880-1I3ACDP4640MSDJM0C2I/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398080192662-L9ZMECKD9KC6DH0BS78Z/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 Captain of HMS Victorious during Operation Iceberg, Michael Maynard Denny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1455367591964-3ZT0PDGMOKU5PZ1PGXRX/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 The detonation alongside HMS VICTORIOUS, from another angle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398079929329-NTBH74DY06UJRT5IUHDM/Kamikaze.jpg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 A Japanese "Zeke" kamikaze aircraft captured in its final death-dive on to the deck of HMS Victorious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402467489462-ZVE3HL0FRYTVQFQLI147/Navy+Blue+Fighter+Pilot+%E2%80%93+Episode+Three%2C+Until+the+Bitter+End++Vintage+Wings+of_2014-06-11_15-47-17.jpg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 CLICK HERE for Part 3 of Michael Whitby's series on Canadian Corsair ace, Lieutenant Don Sheppard aboard HMS Victorious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398080536270-ISD9ANG6KTNADR4YD02S/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 HMS VICTORIOUS burns in the vicinity of B2 4.5in turret on the port bow after being hit by a kamikaze on May 9. The prominent director in front of her island was moved there from on top of the bridge to provide space for new radar equipment. HMS Formidable received a similar modification, but HMS Illustrious and Indomitable did not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1399422045527-6SV2BACW19WYXWKH7BL9/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1476669831529-7IP7SZKY3TVF9VPO2FVK/IMG_1415.jpg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1476669834136-K1GXG1UMGJK2IDOCGIWV/IMG_1416.jpg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398079817509-BP7X83XHMFGR4W77EHGH/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 Firefighters tackle the blaze started by a kamikaze collision on HMS VICTORIOUS' aft flight deck. Also note VICTORIOUS' lack of ant-flash gear discipline in comparison to FORMIDABLE's crew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398080306043-QKZFKIF4OQ4EWEMIV2UY/hms-victorious-9th-may-1945-damaged-by-a-kamikaze-aircraft%255B1%255D.jpg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 Damage control teams work on replacing the damaged plate steel alongside HMS VICTORIOUS' disabled B2 4.5in turret. The wrecked accelerator is clearly visible in the middle ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401337481376-HGG22WFD5VZO7GHYGU35/image-asset.jpeg HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398080822458-RWM0P31W83PYMV5GL9OD/image-asset.png HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398080699880-9AT6ZQ5XOVJSLWXDYF4Z/image-asset.png HMS Victorious: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 9, 1945 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/fairey-fulmar-operational-history daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400156892847-5FK5TBR6CDP917SBSXC6/large+%2811%29.jpg Fairey Fulmar: Operational History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400156837719-F4YZX7DHFKZ9RYBV6JKY/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Operational History 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Seafire: Operational History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413155999325-XBVIFVEEOKVTHW9Y9EZ8/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400219863571-C4N2FP3R587YVZNI2KJK/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History A Supermarine Seafire of No 807 Squadron Fleet Air Arm flying above the British cruiser HMS ROYALIST during a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station at Dekhelia, Egypt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421102866772-ME2YVS0OKJGCEPJ65261/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History FORMIDABLE with RENOWN, NELSON, DUKE OF YORK and VICTORIOUS 6-9 November, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400856774333-DOIU4VR1M02OZH84LUP7/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History 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surrounded by the escort carriers of Force V off Salerno https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400222386693-4BTHQSEVX57MY52AU1X5/Striker-Seafires.JPG Supermarine Seafire: Operational History Seafires take off from the deck of the escort carrier HMS STALKER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400220823186-T97WO8RJ4Y2YNRK58VZF/FA_Ravager1.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History A Seafire after taking the crash barrier aboard the escort carrier HMS RAVAGER. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400220873081-F78NEGO2PCBP2X60RWAE/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History A Seafire trapped by its characteristic "float" upon touch-down about to go into the crash barrier aboard HMS RAVAGER. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400454117816-LB02AJ8CR1ESUJDIFJ6B/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History Seafires aboard HMS 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Note the "slipper" fuel tanks under the fuselage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459906090633-TRIALPR0E6CBZMEXIPUG/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History HMS BATTLER, ATTACKER and UNICORN with the cruiser EURYALUS in the glassy waters off Salerno. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1421046159352-G8XNWQZQUVJLU7TT9SHN/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400220760449-AUSTREFFI22CBLR2O4YW/Attacker-Seafireprang.JPG Supermarine Seafire: Operational History A Seafire ends up on its back after a botched landing aboard HMS ATTACKER in the fickle winds off Salerno, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400220442488-92MXACOZMGISIG8DH2FY/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History A Supermarine Seafire of No 885 Squadron Fleet Air Arm just about to "land out" on the deck of HMS FORMIDABLE at Gibraltar. Three more Seafires are ranged on outriggers on the side of the Flight Deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400223632878-CAQNXUC8689FHGTOC9Y7/image-asset.png Supermarine Seafire: Operational History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400389839998-GU74TFMD6Y8U0WX733CV/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-18_13-07-30.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1410322522163-SJHUIBKKLBTPA045UGNQ/large.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History The maintenance carrier HMS Unicorn was pressed into service as a fleet carrier off Salerno. Her less than optimal design for sustained flight operations took its toll on the fragile Seafires she deployed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1415962177379-6QRYDWXAGGCNSA34OY1K/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400223720094-4CO816FTV7Z67BI6XMTE/image-asset.png Supermarine Seafire: Operational History A Seafire goes around again after a failed approach on HMS HUNTER'S flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416094730811-9M5ICYU5282SOTNBYA69/image-asset.png Supermarine Seafire: Operational History CLICK on the image to buy from the author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400858086622-W58D9CI1Z27XN880VER1/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Operational History https://www.armouredcarriers.com/gunnery-report-hms-illustrious-february-7-1941 daily 0.75 2015-04-29 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397195263345-ERLLECO9E696GCQBBP3X/HMSIndomitablekamikaze1945.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397982774330-A4KHXKEXZV6YATD77G9F/Indomitable.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 The second in a sequence of photographs taken from the bridge of HMS Indomitable showing a kamikaze exploding in the water off the port bow of the armoured aircraft carrier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459907000369-P6CFQW58OSBL1XK2KAVJ/IMG_1249.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459906997249-0HBCTYEB0OJDMOVWQO0D/IMG_1250.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459906995739-QQPPGXC08WEWSKQ4JLKE/IMG_1251.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413015897792-0K3AS9I2S4O1LTZBYXNQ/%5BKamikaze+attacks+on+the+British+Pacific+Fleet+at+Okinawa%5D++Australian+War+Memo_2014-10-11_13-36-05.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413015905587-VZ8N6C8ULPXQT9IQYDRP/%5BKamikaze+attacks+on+the+British+Pacific+Fleet+at+Okinawa%5D++Australian+War+Memo_2014-10-11_13-36-33.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413015918212-N0NHZQG01UGO0SY95YDZ/%5BKamikaze+attacks+on+the+British+Pacific+Fleet+at+Okinawa%5D++Australian+War+Memo_2014-10-11_13-36-59.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1413015925729-HMFXLREZBHO6NZGASWEM/%5BKamikaze+attacks+on+the+British+Pacific+Fleet+at+Okinawa%5D++Australian+War+Memo_2014-10-11_13-31-34.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397984004027-ODA7F6VEFQUK2WVULEUR/1945_04_01_kamikaze_attack_Indomitable.jpg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1397984048214-4QBBT1SYF8OR5SAZUJBW/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1419510227533-D3PE3V5VNDUPU64HNZB3/image-asset.jpeg HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398126656858-4WI4DL34VE5Z2IQ3HJR8/IMG_0517.JPG HMS Indomitable: Kamikaze, April 1 & May 4, 1945 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It dived out of the clouds on the port bow and from the time it emerged from the clouds until the time it hit the water was only 11 seconds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400025708356-6UJGIX36KTCJPD8RZNW1/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious: Kamikaze, April 6, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398078438980-4ZCNV23L2PHC6C2WI24F/IMG_0506.JPG HMS Illustrious: Kamikaze, April 6, 1945 The Japanese dingy recovered from HMS Illustrious' flight deck after the April 6 kamikaze attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398078409273-XVT1NI1865TSCPRX1OH7/IMG_0505.JPG HMS Illustrious: Kamikaze, April 6, 1945 This cylinder head from the Japanese "Judy" which dived into HMS Illustrious on April 6 was recovered from the carrier's deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398077643968-FYNXSY9EPKEAY3FP4LVO/IMG_0503.JPG HMS Illustrious: Kamikaze, April 6, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401334325266-MX89F1JLT9RNWTN81UY2/image-asset.jpeg HMS Illustrious: Kamikaze, April 6, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1398078482970-OTYCOT9UWKZABD723U4E/image-asset.png HMS Illustrious: Kamikaze, April 6, 1945 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/fairey-fulmar-models daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400156228902-3HIQ6EL3FKX0Q942EBJ5/large+%284%29.jpg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400156328738-TRZ3ZJ9LZX6DHQRRL16M/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424678708775-WXYSVI5N1S4EJL1UOZMC/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400157770134-X86DU4LOMBVRH053D1BS/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1425114033716-5B00I7B870CFD2LXPHQL/FulmarCatapult.jpg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1425114048993-FJH4SKRHKY1CCU7VTIML/large+%282%29.jpg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1425114041326-E5KSAS74A4IFG50F0E0Z/large.jpg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1425114056647-387SBQF248WL6S4C7BZ2/large+%281%29.jpg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400157958031-4X7D2KKCGF59Y390DXFW/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401410946302-D3XVA9QR1217UF283W8H/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400156643983-LR8PDGHL6FL7Z0XBYDJJ/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400156436717-J6VOJ086PFDH03NDAWZ8/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400156587343-D79L4EG225SE14TEDXUV/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400157843063-LNQONPHBNHY8KU6PA9HQ/image-asset.png Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400157904851-PNQWLRQBOKBLMS6WQ76Y/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400198420993-OW5C6YSIIF9CB4KG6BI7/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Variants https://www.armouredcarriers.com/seafire-development daily 0.75 2017-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400219537455-EQFBE899W5OCCO560G1E/large+%2816%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400221981570-AV8MPAF6SCMOG7ETW5ZI/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400216628354-J0TPN34MER0M3DL5ZTY7/large+%281%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400216673212-JBB5NG2ISQQJSPUSF3IH/large+%282%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400216676630-M7R25G9Z8RS593RKJRVH/large+%283%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400220961177-6SCCDU3XGK4Y5VISGIX9/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development A line-up of Fleet Air Arm aircraft at RNAS Mill Meece / HMS Fledgling in 1943/44. The facility was used to train WRNS Air Mechanics (Ordnance) on FAA types: Shown here is a Seafire MkI, front, and a Corsair with a Martlet in the middle ground. Off the track to the right are two Fairy Barracudas. Facing the camera at the top of the image is probably a Sea Hurricane though it may be a Fulmar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400221909998-5LPS6OKYKU2WUHFFAXP8/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424645117307-FQFZ8V3WJ2YULKYR2UQM/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development A Seafire undergoing trials aboard HMS Victorious between May 5 and 12, 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400224293079-HBXUDODAYE6KZE01HK7P/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400216771020-5D4UZD8KBABZBI25VXNK/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development Aircraft carriers HMS BITER and HMS AVENGER underway in line astern from HMS VICTORIOUS. Two Supermarine Seafires of No 884 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm can be seen at the far end of the flight deck of HMS VICTORIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400221130035-APFNBBPROIT0E6U25MT9/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400222182671-N0S9FB9DRG4KDS9URMHC/Seafire+%282%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1440724709529-N1SE7NKV2YPG2W6N2AM2/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development Fleet Air Arm mechanics carrying out adjustments to the engines of a Seafire aboard HMS VICTORIOUS in September, 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424645461189-BX2M8MLW2VHOLLRMQ0KY/large+%282%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424645712067-7POM390ITM3WCQS5RMVD/download.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424645470252-1LQUIDCWVN9NOC407GXJ/large+%281%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424645506439-JZVCJ9STD231J7F7MYAW/large+%283%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424645576439-C12TEJEL1GUZF9M0LD1O/large+%286%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424645515260-467PF2RERA66MOCK4YBI/large+%284%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424645544976-2603DGTU6HO6LJJLL2FB/large+%285%29.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400221486498-5MCOAG6BP6WECARA7NOX/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400392651296-30M1CIBAFUAVXS1FBN4N/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400392617026-8Y4NBCA334ETGEKSOYDA/image-asset.png Supermarine Seafire: Development A crashed Seafire aboard HMS INDEFATIGABLE. A large chunk of its wing can be seen to have been carried away by gunfire. The presence of the SEAC roundel on the right wing simply represents the use of a spare wing component not painted for the Pacific theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400392860024-LNTUQWH0W4F902SB954Y/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development A successful "belly landing" by a British Pacific Fleet Supermarine Seafire, whose undercarriage was damaged during on operation against the Japanese. Photograph possibly taken on board HMS INDEFATIGABLE. Note the arrester wires lying across the deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501337975707-Q5YHGYODA6KPOQ9K9Z8O/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development Cunliff-Owen Seafire production facility at Southampton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400217664029-6TKB5YKA3XE4URWMK1UD/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development A prototype Supermarine Seafire landing on board HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, February 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424646415439-W48EII50AO2LEOIP4JS5/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Development CLICK HERE to see the IWM's Seafire photo archive. They add more every few months. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/seafire-variants daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1456013354664-ONTYJEAJMRIU3AGLP2Q5/16636868203_1a71c96c33_b.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400858409605-U9DCZ3LIF8EMXWYPFJAD/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416049314951-SK1RWSRBN8QUFT3KQ5Z4/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400390967326-JUGB2F4X1O0N0BYQKBN0/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400217955449-O2AMORMW0FTPWK92G2EJ/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants A Supermarine Seafire hits the barrier on HMS INDEFATIGABLE after returning from a strike on the Japanese oil refinery at Pangkalan Brandan, Sumatra.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400392323520-AJH2ZZC4J5X0G0OMPV1K/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401411436693-BSZKZMXCX0AQBAWPV3LJ/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400217842810-RZCBMTMWPU8TFVS0WFHQ/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants The Rock of Gibraltar viewed between two Supermarine Seafire aircraft of No 885 Squadron Fleet Air Arm on board HMS FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400218716363-850T2NSGGTVGDJKVJW23/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants A maintenance crew at work on a Supermarine Seafire at RNAS Lee-on Solent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400218381151-QK7E4N70X7QBTMI4WLRK/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants Flight deck hands about to free the arrester wire from a Supermarine Seafire which has just landed on HMS ILLUSTRIOUS in the Clyde. It is carrying a distinctive conformal "slipper" drop tank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433726976655-4O1G6RY2AGTZSAXO34UL/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433726816577-PH8OPT8RJZJ43J9RMGKW/image-asset.png Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416732969468-EU30URH381C167OTUMT7/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants An original Seafire L-IIC performance data sheet. CLICK HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431745359232-NSCTYR4Y7KFPZIL9ICJA/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400217260368-1FMKFPRIDHLEOA4VRV9A/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants A Seafire IB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400221646262-6XTI051JXTZ8XMI49S5Q/IMG_0264.JPG Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400222258741-P75LXS01E2J5OYQ7JQ5P/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants For the cameras ... A publicity shoot aboard HMS Indomitable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400217371174-N22D107M4HAMPCU7T6WR/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants A Supermarine Seafire Mk IIc of No. 885 Naval Air Squadron on the flight deck of HMS FORMIDABLE in the Mediterranean, December 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501337718302-HX3IK59EFLAAEM88ZRCB/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401408442337-HPTJ6VLXDZR4OHSGMJNT/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400218459437-I0ND8SN5US8MARPS1ET7/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants A Supermarine Seafire taking off from the carrier HMS FURIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401409643351-3OTA9KYIL00O12WEZCQQ/LIIC.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1462518381526-7GCXXUWCHEXDYT0RN0TB/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants The first Seafire fighters fly over Japan, 17 July 1945. The first plane to actually crass the coast (top) was piloted by Lieut (A) Norman Goodfellow, RNVR, of Southport, Lancs. These planes soon returned to their carrier as the strike was cancelled due to heavy fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400224042414-PR0YSQ93YQ82ADDLGJY9/image-asset.png Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416114379008-4V3OH4A5TBUCCHD80S7S/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416114396814-BVY4H3GGSKHKU5N4WUBB/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402636191819-LUNPKAEGOACXUU5S4IH4/2014-05-31+23.58.42.png Supermarine Seafire: Variants Seafire IIIs under construction in a Westland factory. Also evident are early versions of the twin-engine Welkin high-altitude fighter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459906533377-C96NFW83W89Q8WXS5M8L/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants A Seafire III from HMS KHEDIVE carries a 500lb bomb during Operation Dragoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400222933005-36FFF5H12YU1PI1CNIQY/image-asset.png Supermarine Seafire: Variants A Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Seafire fighter being warmed up on board the aircraft carrier HMS Implacable while ratings hold chocks under the wheels. The 89 gallon ex P-40 Warhawk drop tank is prominent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1416734175699-BEKAVF68YBRGJFQIWEV3/image-asset.png Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400389983623-3U9JGJ5NI4S9WZ7J2K1Z/_2014-05-13_22-41-31.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400389991715-TYEOAAQMJ670JQ7ZOWEO/_2014-05-13_22-40-56.jpg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1414045152918-37769Q405LTJOGSLWDW6/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400217433251-WEKYK6DWFZ6Z5HYFEPQ3/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants Under the bombed bastions of the entrance to Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta, an escort carrier arrives with the deck loaded with Supermarine Seafire IIIs (recognisable by their detached wingtips). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1401408698596-1X3WK3Y4KEKLJ22E6LMR/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400222224894-QP3PCSDZCO6VXP233KOA/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400222057247-K40Z8VM04901J95QFRNO/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1419770839645-RSFKAP08U0ZPX0A6GJMX/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1419770862863-ZY374AJFEH4IG1TQIAV3/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431529092534-NC65RED3574VV8P85POQ/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants Surviving Supermarine Seafire LF III G-BUAR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402216874069-OTU0363FITSNSU1CIWCX/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458898502134-Z1OQAWZT40NEEIVWQ97D/image-asset.jpeg Supermarine Seafire: Variants https://www.armouredcarriers.com/fairey-fulmar-development daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400470242049-7PUMO3VEQ00ROUH3LKC9/large+%283%29.jpg Fairey Fulmar: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1424678973630-720L457A67PE11VXA9KS/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Development A Fulmar of 807 Squadron, Ark Royal, in April, 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400158330090-0VYBAD0HQOL3XMI4V191/image-asset.png Fairey Fulmar: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1410333569053-OR3IISG0COYQKRS5X1B3/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Development A Fairey Fulmar practising dive bombing on HMS BEDOUIN at sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1402468463756-KCPX4Y06DQRJ3VSFPG7V/Navy+Blue+Fighter+Pilot+%E2%80%93+Episode+Three%2C+Until+the+Bitter+End++Vintage+Wings+of_2014-06-11_15-47-17.jpg Fairey Fulmar: Development CLICK HERE to view an in-depth account of LT Don Sheppard, RCNVR, the FAA's only Corsair ace who flew from HMS Victorious between March 1944 and June 1945, by Michael Whitby, Senior Naval Historian, Canada's Directorate of History and Heritage-D’Histoire et Patrimoine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400155248999-T2A27UC00UUL343NQRNS/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Development An early Fairey Fulmar on display outside its hangar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400155335776-Q6M5Z8B657QBRQQ1S1RO/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400157156545-AS1OZNB4IA1KBLO5SGIJ/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400157232757-UOOWB47NB3O0UWCSUY0P/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400158217565-IVUTKLZXQJOFM3GYCRJ1/IMG_0572.PNG Fairey Fulmar: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1400198322859-BIWFEALO66NNNEOR4FYB/image-asset.jpeg Fairey Fulmar: Development https://www.armouredcarriers.com/grumman-f4f-martlet-development daily 0.75 2021-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433665272389-TOXCOPHG842PS1RMKK9V/3780466009_e9d3c7d5fe_o.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431569948977-4SE02YTD202S6O669LSO/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431527186513-UON0PXAEBN0AFA6MEDI0/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development The XF4F-1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431527296074-PLHDTA1A97H2LHDGKCR5/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development Flotation bag testing on the XF4F-3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431527700896-YS6DOCMLLS6PVMV5U235/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1455195756325-DOWWB5K4RDCH1YZXHND3/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development An F4F-3 undergoes maintenance as the type was 'working up' aboard USS Enterprise in October 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433679650253-ZW30M39KK8TFPU2K8JDD/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431527833421-ETPSU5JY2BHV1MJ53DKO/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433679778456-F68JXMSTLW200EDC5ON7/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431570869115-4A22B4OATT3TQ0UCP0HT/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443846911688-L0TVV798ZSBWX1JFYBC5/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development Space savings ... Five folded Martlets compared with two unfolded Wildcats. For this, and the ability to be stowed below on the narrow armoured carrier lifts, the FAA was willing to delay its order of the F4F. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433679942521-J882ASCAI51KY9WVPQGD/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433636515695-B2C9LPH6VUNWWHOHYN4I/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development Martlets folded in the hangar of HMS VICTORIOUS in September, 1942. Note the partially closed armoured roller doors to the lift in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431527870114-PCEOH4179MEUDBDG2K4J/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development F4F's stowed aboard USS Charger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433682185487-Y139H1QAALV7BNTF992Z/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431527912382-JOZNYEMGKGX9PAU307FT/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Development https://www.armouredcarriers.com/grumman-f4f-martlet-variants daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431490196522-U4Q1ZDZRAQYZ3QLB52LU/2015-05-11+23_58_26-195046035-F4F-Wildcat-Warpaint-9.pdf+-+Adobe+Reader.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431527515337-TAQ7TTSQPB5E7NT68PMV/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1441650833539-P230ETBT4RC4GLCVDW36/Martlet_Warspite_landonFormidable_May42.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants A Grumman Martlet fighter of 888 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm from the aircraft carrier FORMIDABLE flying over HMS WARSPITE while circling to land during operations round Madagascar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431525891394-ZG3GVHP38386Q5VE6KST/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431527562296-2UP4T7F7QS5BAK8M8P73/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants Eric 'Winkle' Brown with a Martlet I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431769363154-DJC7QLZDTTZ468ZPIKUO/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431769413360-2035LBIACPOYW75OA5K4/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433680979960-I6POAF1QYGKACXVMJ05C/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants CLICK HERE for an original FAA Martlet I performance analysis data sheet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431528217623-1XBBOZGQY6PIGLFVIS69/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants There are different interpretations of this unusual paint job on some Martlet Mk 1s. Some say it was a US misinterpretation of British colour schemes resulting in highly unusual, glossy colours. Others say it was the original French scheme, just with British roundels attached. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431529759721-KETQCVWGZSQGRMLH5OK1/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431571416352-FE7DLAUJ7QEWS54YQW0S/large+%283%29.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431571438771-SFHZSZZB7DNFETKQWBII/large+%282%29.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431571453505-M92SY4VVYWEWT63JX9YP/large+%281%29.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431571865286-34NP2OQKBN3Q4C0ZIIXI/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1433681143360-6HVBRWZPJFK4CC4E41UV/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants CLICK HERE for an original FAA Marlet II performance data sheet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431530311495-38CUOJN1JAJO20CXL8PM/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431571659228-K77LBVL4QZY4JUODAP8R/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants A Martlet of 881 Squadron operating on a sandy strip in East Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431526287764-J2PKBCT9T46HKKSE8BCB/Formidable_Martlet_Lift.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431526227658-41V8E3KRCSWWC8YUINMU/MartletFormidableSeptember42-3.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431526239729-BB3LOHB0RNEAGYWU85RW/MartletFormidableSeptember42-2.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431526063375-ESCIRS2Q6G9TINJEIWV7/MartletFormidableSeptember42.jpg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451432600526-KTGUZD5D6ETHEMNDC4KU/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431530569797-S1DPWN1ZJ339GIO182WF/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431529941919-ZOFVYAWGHBHXI18HLRS9/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1431572005076-ZL0OYNJ8CS2KNQFHVHUS/image-asset.jpeg Grumman F4F Martlet: Variants https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hms-unicorn-maintenance-support daily 0.75 2023-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432003393695-7R7WKJOE06K79ISX9LUX/Unicorn+%2526+Adamant+1944+01a.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432047485750-RXJDACZCR34AI2IAM6FM/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432049229568-NJ3A3HEX5EVS2ORUR9CE/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451118742367-BF3657RBOFGA2JLOQXOW/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1461589016647-OV9PPNBFHNIQ30MRHZED/large+%281%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1461589042005-ENS277LQ6LQ9NZ504NBF/large+%282%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1461588983529-57VS7DGWXYCIE3A99BO3/large+%283%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432050071279-5OLME1IT564VGDUA5UZB/SCAN0075.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432092199998-OCK7UD19N9LYM26CV3GQ/unicorn_drawings.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432049154170-H1S8IXQP19X2IBG0VIN4/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432047653403-0C2N74GBUC1JPVBJ246Z/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1461588471449-6JNIMVQ7DFOX5D4LG361/image-asset.png HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier HMS UNICORN in Greenock, 24 June, 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475561853313-ICXOO8MT9RGMBJIJLHVH/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier HMS Unicorn in February 1945, carrying spare Hellcat fighters on her flight deck from Ceylon to Australia. Note how the old SEAC roundels have been roughly painted over. In the hangar, as seen through the lift left open for ventilation, can be seen aircraft repainted with the new BPF roundel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432306380845-F9MYE5Q5MG74I2Q831SG/image-asset.png HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432077314775-XKVIYLMVNAIRJDX6PH0B/image-asset.png HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432048621340-3XYU78MFNM7GAFDFI1L9/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432075822280-YGRRQFQISUPZ9O8GX9MH/image-asset.png HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432049321219-9D3FXXL7VRHEQS1STU7C/image-asset.png HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432080003287-TI62ZNKACL18YUXTAPOS/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432048696951-JN6RG2PSEZDCPV3MGOJX/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1482537117901-F0DREAVH8NR4JERRB5S4/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier Inside UNICORN's hangar. Here she has three Corsair's tightly stowed, with two Firefly fighter-bombers in various states of assembly in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432048264261-JJRECDSZ9BQTQ9I5XM8P/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432048337477-TRNC0FL3VHB20YKB4L0K/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668501548-BF2UA9Z8M7YI2NF3R20R/large+%288%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668497056-PGSSUDMY63JVGD0OHT16/large.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668500250-KL48XW1KBA31D85S3TKX/large+%287%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668501375-28A3MYFDBECMH829YXNQ/large+%289%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668502626-VNVBY3NDQG81RHMRI1KS/large+%2810%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668499692-7BO9X16YFF9OKMATEYXV/large+%286%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668496636-7O7BKY5ATJXVA4QTOPCC/large+%281%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668498681-D6NMBLHL3SDMMPV6S3HW/large+%284%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668499115-38YO1LM87ZUBFBP2D0H3/large+%285%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668498016-2QEWTNQEJZ3D5VU44NF5/large+%283%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1450668497582-T6JQH1XL6ETI4MFM37NZ/large+%282%29.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432047782522-K3K9OBCX8O40GGRZ8339/image-asset.png HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475649389406-GZKJ2B71VHL2VVD6CZ9W/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier A repair squad at work aboard HMS UNICORN at Trincomalee in February 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432048962287-GA9IF7Z7KKMZ7PPTKQRA/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1511037719042-9T4XK5YYVYZZ1L93LY0R/large_000000.jpg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier HMS UNICORN, Trincomalee , February 1944: A new air screw has been fitted to a Barracuda and an engine test is made while repair crew stand by. Note the surface-search radar on the Barracuda's wing. A Walrus is on the deck in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1482537278036-TWLT1YS3ZJEMI07CQ0HS/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier Machine-shop facilities in action aboard HMS UNICORN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432048044567-24IMJK5VWQMJV5NA81VD/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432048442149-Q482KQZO9AF3QQRCSW5C/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432048899125-9XPS2BA4074HXR0UCHNA/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432077445743-Y4F0UXL04AXIVAZT2L9Q/image-asset.png HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432048928036-3OZU7PFJKXEVQ2KERNM8/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432077582866-ZX2HYJ3DI02432M2U8FS/image-asset.png HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432049025924-28WR41JX937VY6ZSNRO3/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier HMS UNICORN and HMS SAUMAREZ on 29 July, 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1432172001124-LZA9B0YWPJ7QK1918YYG/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1472980199839-JA9IMXB9158KD4ISVQ4Y/image-asset.jpeg HMS Unicorn: Maintenance & Support Carrier https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hawker-sea-hurricane-variants daily 0.75 2024-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1439794141742-0D9ZU2U0R50MISUSJYSF/1524586.jpg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/f40bb8c7-11de-4b06-9bfa-484aeb4ae521/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/22338301-c996-4e8e-9028-cc96bbd085ad/image-asset+%281%29.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/7cb4bdcc-7128-4776-9c10-2a799dd72b6f/HawkerHurricaneDataCard.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants - Make it stand out An original FAA data card showing the performance of the Hawker Sea Hurricane 1B (Note the performance with 16lb boost at the bottom right of the card). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/a601e36c-32c0-4446-907a-c791550f3a69/image-asset+%282%29.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/deebc88c-81e7-43b2-be0f-92b1f3a01bf2/large%2B%281%29.jpg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/9c137d35-16fa-48f7-a73a-e5c4219fa76b/image-asset+%283%29.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1c98039a-aed1-4bf2-a536-a332efe69f78/image-asset+%284%29.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443338058022-DHM2XZWPNYYRQOVX3XRJ/large.jpg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443337986637-MPCL2RFRHE59QM69C8NG/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443338776704-FTDMMXNCJIMFEPDPAMRA/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443338440936-2VGYAYETD9GRIPG018LJ/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443338869017-HSP2WJSDHXM1JP96QU58/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Variants https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hawker-sea-hurricane-development daily 0.75 2024-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1439794091749-U2HY5H2DI2B7YV9Z1UG6/WRNS_Yeovilton.jpg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443337569651-MGHD2HL8OWUXX6YF8IFP/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443340666190-7R3RM721KQR1WOR0L9SU/0_fs.jpg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Development Hurricanes of No 46 Squadron RAF park on HMS Glorious' aft flight deck after successfully landing on without any arrester hooks or pilot deck experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459906322886-RMR1F31RCRPW8F60AMUK/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Development HMS GLORIOUS flies off RAF Hurricanes of 46 Squadron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443337625952-UE58M2PLD9UKRFE6PMM0/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1444123677628-8JR1PFO3368X8JMKMSA4/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443337836116-AMTUUZI2DI0EOPDD6ZGQ/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1444121669107-Q23LAI092FAL5ZSW1NGJ/large.jpg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1443342778976-BZAMP14OYQ905PVWTKIG/image-asset.jpeg Hawker Sea Hurricane: Development https://www.armouredcarriers.com/uss-robin-hms-victorious daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451360735057-1Q3B9R33QMBT5WXYPGIF/229635_original.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451370603854-XW3UVM7GBG19V40DG5FP/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN USS CIMARRON refuels USS ROBIN (HMS VICTORIOUS) on July 12, 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451377170418-W2HRR2TE6SC9V9G67546/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN USS WASHINGTON as seen over the Sea Hurricanes aboard HMS VICTORIOUS in July 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451372594101-6EFKWIKK14F24JGTJ950/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN A Japanese bomber is shot down in flames as USS ENTERPRISE suffers a near-miss during the battle of Santa Cruz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451372676136-WU8NA01D3R4S0A58V143/hornet-takes-another-hit-santa-cruz.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Japanese aircraft converge on USS HORNET during the battle of Santa Cruz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1546990879034-OQKESJBL843U72L639PC/Steichin-15.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Escorts defend USS ENTERPRISE during the battle of Santa Cruz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1546991115704-T6APYUCVWVVT5RSC1ZU7/Victorious_Kent_Washington.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS. Among her consorts are the USS Washington and HMS Kent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451361803077-7XNJ7JSFXZ7M3IXWA1PC/image-asset.png USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS encounters heavy weather, with waves breaking over her hurricane bow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451368455924-RAY5CGOBV2P4FQBPOKGJ/Victorious_Martlets_Hangar_Sept42.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Martlets inside HMS VICTORIOUS' hangar, September 1942. Note the partially closed armoured doors in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1461758494401-S1ENZJ9A848PRGIL90PY/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS, September 1942: Fairey Albacores stowed with folded wings in the hangar below the flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451376852608-MUIKLTSJQ9L5PDE9F9TV/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS in February 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460077711610-WM5ZDVVMI2NWQSNHCMGK/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451368411255-TZXKFG95JH0C0M5VUTQA/Victorious_June42.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451372976456-HF2HKYW61L2HY8NWGZDX/Victorious_FighterDirector_42.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS' fighter direction room in 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1487979358075-E1KQELDO8BZ11GPNMMAO/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN A close-up showing the bulged deck 'faring' placed about and behind B2 4.5in turret. This may have been to improve aircraft ranging around the accelerator and forward lift. Photos attributed to Operation Pedestal in August 1942 indicate this faring may have been in place before VICTORIOUS's sojourn as USS ROBIN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459038023163-IBR6W7VRHF9X71YW84UV/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451373448641-5ODSF0W0W97YC3DDS4KU/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Avengers aboard 'USS ROBIN' (HMS VICTORIOUS). Note the square painted on the centre of the flight deck: It was a decoy lift intended to draw the aim of Japanese attacks to the strongest point of the carrier's armoured flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1594728947758-MYTAC2TJGK6BMXNKYKFL/Avenger.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Maintenance ratings of a squadron of the Fleet Air Arm, equipped with Grumman Avengers, overhaul one of their charges on the tarmac of an American Airfield, where air crews of the squadron are becoming accustomed to their new aircraft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451371755294-ERIQW66N3DG276QVXVTE/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS as "USS ROBIN" in 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451369076659-F3FXKVY9ZHVEUKMKPL3O/RobinPanamaCanal.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS enters a lock on the Panama Canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459038071582-K3SWD5NU7UN3FYBHMQ63/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451558984572-DYXYLK1Z5CSH0G80L7EM/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451376769882-WNVIZDQO6PVV1HN9HYSB/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN A US destroyer comes alongside 'USS Robin' (HMS VICTORIOUS). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1500168419775-523C1MQ7VNO1Q12YGTWH/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Admiral Nimitz (right) with Captain L D Macintosh, DSO DSC, RN, Commanding Officer of the VICTORIOUS, on the flight deck, 29 April 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451367798441-A1SKRQWG61UZ4CDF8ZBO/image-asset.png USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS Victorious shortly after arriving at Ford Island, Pearl Harbour, in March 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451361342600-Y91DUTHRZQ3OZIP5OSG7/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN US Navy sailors take a look at HMS Victorious, tied up at Ford Island, Pearl Harbour, in 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1546991924653-JBOPR2IM05QARO6ZQG75/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Hula girls dancing on the flight deck of the VICTORIOUS at Honolulu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466851637120-COAWBXAR5IP858N021WS/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN A US blimp flies over Victorious while serving with the USN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460077774225-QV9H53ZGW3SJY6SUGQF2/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459129333041-P6NCV7PL5BRNUUQUXJ0R/SCAN0084.JPG USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN 'USS Robin' (HMS VICTORIOUS) was painted in the same manner as US carriers to reduce the chances of her being confused with Japanese ships by US observers. Her deck was given a disruptive pattern, though the design above - including the "V" recognition letters - does not appear to be very accurate when compared to the photos seen elsewhere on this page. Source: British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII, Volume 2, Battleships and Aircraft Carriers, by Malcolm Wright https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451371878803-2LM0N6K3QVQBUCYSQBPA/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Mixed markings ... Avengers and Martlets in a variety of camouflage schemes, though all carrying the USN star, on the deck of 'USS ROBIN' (HMS VICTORIOUS). One colour scheme represents the modified F4F's delivered to British Martlet specifications. The other would denote USN Wildcats from SARATOGA. Which scheme is which ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451372156933-51VWSC8X3WICR7OAXP9P/image-asset.png USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS at sea off Hawaii. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451369552397-EQEJLQPH9C5AK3HFC6WA/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN USS SARATOGA and 'USS ROBIN' - HMS VICTORIOUS - at Noumea, New Caledonia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1487974781480-4ZHC010F566GWMN10CR3/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN USN and FAA Wildcats aboard HMS Victorious (USS Robin) while operating as a 'fighter carrier' in 1943. Picture thanks to David Reid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1546992059812-3H9330RGB89495L31CT0/large_000000+%281%29.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Admiral Ramsey, I/C Task Force, taking the salute as the ship's company of HMS VICTORIOUS march past, March 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459154129712-WMFYB7VFXEGFEI3IGESA/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451370348465-M8LGM9HSEIDOMTOA8H1F/image-asset.png USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN 832 Squadron FAA Avenger crew aboard USS SARATOGA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451370039921-4FFMOGR04QLKBIX9YLLI/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN USN VF-3 Wildcat pilots aboard HMS VICTORIOUS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451371155970-GBIMS9H2Y0QECCR2CEMX/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN A US anti-aircraft cruiser and HMS VICTORIOUS both take on fuel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451370881232-RZ3J8M893QJNOSWTAV4A/image-asset.png USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Another view of HMS VICTORIOUS and USS CIMARRON. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451371328014-NE4KLTXXF5OCRXBK7W8Y/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN 'USS ROBIN' (HMS VICTORIOUS) flies off a Martlet. Avengers can be seen in the rear deck park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451369933904-NGIHQX4FBCI7IVEL55CQ/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS at sea with the battleships, escort and supply ships of Task Force 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451371640552-Y01HT6KJWQG3YF5AC2II/image-asset.png USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS moored in Noumea, New Caledonia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1453538542374-2ZAUJXKJC3P2TXFZC4MW/large.jpg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS Victorious's crew man the deck as the ship leaves Noumea for the last time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451369748273-WKFKT0TGP2NSG0KRNL5K/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN HMS VICTORIOUS at Noumea, New Caledonia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1546992206787-UXKNDPCBH2Y5RBED7Y73/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Admiral Nimitz (right) with Captain L D Macintosh, DSO DSC, RN, Commanding Officer of the VICTORIOUS, on the flight deck, 29 April 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451361519573-IPCMDLMBFL1O0UY9B40O/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN Click on the picture to see a high-resolution version. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458973201590-J5BQMZ6BW93FJ4F4LWCX/image-asset.jpeg USS Robin - HMS Victorious with the USN https://www.armouredcarriers.com/uss-robin-hms-victorious-captains-report daily 0.75 2015-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451404262222-J6UY8540XHGL1CH7SRA3/Victorious%2C+1943%2C+near+Hawaii.JPG + ADM1/13385: Captain Mackintosh, HMS Victorious (USS Robin) https://www.armouredcarriers.com/uss-robin-interview-of-commander-s-g-mitchell-usn daily 0.75 2016-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451571266861-DOHDRIU5SZ7HOTABJO79/USS_Saratoga_%28CV-3%29_1943-44.jpg + Document: Interview of Commander S. G. Mitchell, USN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451570934643-DZPHBVBHRX319Q4CPQXV/image-asset.jpeg + Document: Interview of Commander S. G. Mitchell, USN https://www.armouredcarriers.com/document-staff-requirements daily 0.75 2016-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451679773345-0TPKOJ3LS8FCW8G32CM7/SCAN0086.jpg + Document: Staff Requirements https://www.armouredcarriers.com/-document daily 0.75 2016-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451685549014-9O891HXV5OD9AATJ8UC7/IMG_0207.jpg + Document: Mike Banyard’s unofficial report https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1451685584839-366TR9ZF0HN1NX4UA34E/image-asset.jpeg + Document: Mike Banyard’s unofficial report https://www.armouredcarriers.com/illustrious-and-saratoga daily 0.75 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452905497803-YQ6D4Y96CH52TVJPMUDV/HMS_Illustrious_1944.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452911156881-519TXJNMK8MBIP3NAH4U/May44-Illustrious-strikedeck.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452909356162-Z5Y4JN56CZ421QUSP3TQ/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga The forward elements of the new core of the British Eastern Fleet, pictured at Trincomalee in February 1944. In the foreground is HMS Unicorn, with the battlecruiser HMS Renown above and HMS Illustrious to the right. The cruiser partially obscured by smoke is either HMS Ceylon or HMNZS Gambia. The fresh arrivals from the Home and Mediterranean fleets have not yet been repainted in Eastern Fleet camouflage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452908282903-ET2ZF15508YAKMPJSYQL/image-asset.png Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452909429318-71RV7U2RFMYWL9KP7E52/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452914876503-52QLT7HG5D3FALX1XMBR/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454508223489-S55Q27I91EJN2211GGBO/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga Corsairs aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS wear the SEAC roundel (blue ring surrounding a white circle) used by the British Eastern Fleet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454541664597-PN5Z17NKZDD6Z9UYSJDI/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga Mr Thomas Stanton, a civilian engineer who joined ILLUSTRIOUS in December 1943, as Technical Advisory Representative for Chance-Vought Corsairs, chatting to pilot Sub Lieut (A) A W Sutton, of Saskatoon, Canada, after his return from the attack on Surabaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452909037811-0I36K27RW0A4BCME8XH7/2015-11-11+16_12_32-dvd____E__+-+VLC+media+player.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501832890979-D49H8FJO697JVRMDPMBC/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454462225651-BA14XKW2J1RGNULKPO60/1944_05_18_saratoga_cv3_from+Illustrious.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454543506196-C84SEBKHPXLY15H7ZT3D/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga The crowded, busy flight deck of USS Saratoga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454543622897-L7RD5S9FK775ESJHULY3/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwm.org.uk%2Fcollections%2Fitem%2Fobject%2F205157917http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwm.org.uk%2Fcollections%2Fitem%2Fobject%2F205157917 Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga HMS CUMBERLAND during her service with the British Eastern Fleet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454714508940-UNPGRJOI1AXR4MUHWLTM/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454505656813-L6WM7SDSGBO2H1EPHU77/Surabaya-Saratoga.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga USS SARATOGA in the Indian Ocean, 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501833507909-P0MNFAYF4QCPORT0SAKE/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1461811428256-ZTON9BUTDBSH11R2CSUS/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga HMS ILLUSTRIOUS and USS SARATOGA in Trincomalee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454233353094-DMBQLAPCWBC02IYT5B1X/Windows+Media+Player_2014-05-13_23-07-53.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga FAA and USN aviators mingle in HMS ILLUSTRIOUS's wardroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454462488028-TB2RV1DJPJKMMQHSU2AZ/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga HMS NEWCASTLE (cruiser), HMS ILLUSTRIOUS (carrier), USS SARATOGA (carrier), HMS VALIANT (battleship), HMS RENOWN (battleship) in Trincomalee Harbour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/5db92c2e-3fb8-4e1e-85f6-478cf25a8ee6/GTD5ycIWoAAV7SK.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga - Make it stand out This is CDR Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Clifton enjoying some well-earned ice cream in the cockpit of his F6F Hellcat on USS Saratoga after a successful raid in 1944. In the U.S. Navy, ice cream became known as "gedunk" in the 1930s because the characters in the popular comic strip "Harold Teen" were regularly shown eating "gedunk sundaes" at a soda fountain. Today, gedunk refers to all junk food as well as the shop where it can be purchased on a ship. Source: US Naval Institute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454462063256-JZLZ7V7O42VY2GKYI7LH/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga Capt John D Cassidy, Admiral Somerville, and Commander Coldwell on board the SARATOGA in Trincomalee habour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452909504542-SCQFF38EOF27UWWUUK0V/1944_05_16_uss_saratoga_cv3.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga 'Do you hear there! This is the captain speaking. If anyone isn't too busy to come up on the flight deck there is something there worth seeing' ... One of the most beautiful sunsets any ... had ever seen or were likely to see again. April 18, 1944. (Kenneth Poolman, Illustrious). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454233728989-L7PJ0IB15CNFQZP8H984/Sabang-QueenE-Richeleau.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga HMS Queen Elizabeth and the French battleship Richelieu providing cover as part of Task Force 69. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454505399514-W6404F92CJLI9DQKRT2G/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga HMS VALIANT, FS RICHELIEU and HMS RENOWN in the Bay of Bengal in the lead-up to the attack on Sabang.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478852390775-6HKAZVAQ4X6ZY7VXX78I/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwm.org.uk%2Fcollections%2Fitem%2Fobject%2F205155364 Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga A Fairey Barracuda leaves huge fires, showing the success of the attack, as it returns from the raid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452937874019-MCBFTVRFMRUQRPU8E3GX/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga Sabang burns in the background as HMS Tactician, indicated by the arrow right, moves up - under fire - to pull a downed US Hellcat pilot out of the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454504734812-G4HI7N6J6EVFYDTH8G6A/large.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga The heavily modernised battlecruiser HMS RENOWN was no stranger to defending carriers. She, along with the cruiser HMS SHEFFIELD, had formed the core of Force H with HMS ARK ROYAL during the early months of the war against Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501833186361-0UHDW8FTPU0B74BEJ64T/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454233562670-D1KETHTSI86QVRU8F9VL/Sabang19Apr-Cockpit.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454233573340-8B8SVLUT3SZ7D2RUZGHL/Sabang-burns.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454233579314-XNUIZ3WV6JVGT4NQVVS7/Sabang-destroyerburns.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454505179726-LHGJPY6UN46WE9BM7MD1/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga HMS ILLUSTRIOUS stows her Barracudas and Corsairs after a raid on the Andaman Islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1531487904159-H2N7TJDZYVPT1HAFF1YE/large_000000.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga A Chance-Vought Corsair (No JT208, engine no 24293/8694) buckles a wing on landing. HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, May 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452909829471-S0CXCCXPQ2NPU895UMG0/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga USS SARATOGA and covering unites of the British Pacific Fleet as seen from the flight deck of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. The hasty nature of the 'secondment' of Avengers from RN escort carriers can be seen in the identification number daubed on the aircraft's engine cowling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1453534667805-YPZ16LYWNXNXYWU6VQ2Z/1944_05_00_832_sdn_illustrious_26.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga New arrivals ... FAA Avengers, previously employed in anti-submarine operations from escort carriers, are loaded aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454504981606-0GMJBTWDK1HENRXCCXQG/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga HMS VALIANT pictured as Task Force 65 steamed towards Surabaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454234655824-BDKCSMYWCRVB8QKC8JNG/Operation+Transom.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454234719469-RN69WFJRRTXPPZBI1BHY/BPM+Refinery+Under+Attack.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454544448813-T2SZF8WPOBTUWVOICNSJ/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga FAA Corsair pilots 'debrief' in HMS ILLUSTRIOUS's wardroom after returning from the raid on Surabaya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454462351476-C7RERFVU0AW7KLRZVZWJ/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga The Eastern Fleet forms up in line-ahead prior to farewelling the US ships, as seen from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1452909952023-LCQF70758KPJFK35QMOC/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454506530705-MKCFMIYY1417A0WRZN7Y/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga ILLUSTRIOUS's 830 Squadron Corsair pilots, some of whom took part in the Surabaya raid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454506392812-66VURK0M8RCFFXFBJ45C/Surabaya-Corsair-CAP_Illustrious.jpg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga ILLUSTRIOUS's Corsair fighter pilots who formed bomber escort and umbrella for fleet during the Surabaya operation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454506215075-D11B2DT6Y7VZA8JQTXBJ/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga Some of the bomber crews of 832 and 845 Squadron who took part in the Surabaya raid. Front row are gunners, middle row, observers, and standing, pilots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458898328924-B7I3WMUJZ4080BIQQQS4/image-asset.jpeg Operation Diplomat - Illustrious and Saratoga https://www.armouredcarriers.com/-liaison-report daily 0.75 2016-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1453013917147-JP2NC7BPOIUUC7WQYGI6/File_000+%281%29.jpeg + Liaison Report: Operation Transom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1453014151203-IVSLB47XEN8XK5WUDBTS/image-asset.jpeg + Liaison Report: Operation Transom https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hms-indomitable-operation-husky daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459770416610-P7DYP0KTENK995O9QVUH/2524770235_c400a86c48_o.jpg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454282861023-MP0J107Y1E389LFW71YL/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 HMS INDOMITABLE, pictured in early 1943. Note the Seafire on the outrigger just behind S2 4.5in and in front of S1 Pom Pom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459771053525-Z8N1DA2SLLPCQ49HRUGV/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 Left to right: HMS RODNEY, WARSPITE, a Cruiser, HMS NELSON and cruisers of Force H in the Ionan Sea, July 10 to 16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1461291010722-D3TV8ELK1SV9SBHYDVAC/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459771195208-AC7EJ3HXUFZ2UY3U7DPY/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 HMS WARSPITE, with Seafires of FORMIDABLE in the foreground, part of Force H in the Ionian Sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459816004336-HKQTEVQG3G07KDKLZ96C/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459816682720-BEGXD5H371VAFY3CWTSF/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459816991499-69CCKRGEZ90I501I1N1M/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459770321583-F5U5ODCFVWEQJESC37S2/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459905921205-XDXDMNTMAVICWZ842DSJ/image-asset.png Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459815557175-WET9DH48OP8FKR0Y77XY/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459771483663-36O20MSZTTEK3GKOKUFA/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 Operation Husky: The Sicily Landings 9 - 10 July 1943: The invasion fleet at sea, viewed from the bridge of one of the ships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454547641401-TEA41RMSK9WFPT3O9RUF/large.jpg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 The Sicily Landings 9-10 July 1943: HMS ESKIMO patrolling the landing area off the coast of Sicily, while in the distance a supply ship burns after being hit by enemy aircraft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454280642651-MU70JBLT1BWP1PI8U6EJ/large.jpg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 HMS INDOMITABLE is seen over the Seafire 'ready' park aboard HMS FORMIDABLE, with the battleships RODNEY and NELSON. Force 'H' is pictured here in the Ionian Sea just hours before INDOMITABLE was torpedoed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475719229579-0LOUHHV2KS0PHUFQ22Y3/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1500869538208-FBL9BT6WESBBJZ6WPO07/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 Aircrew fit a torpedo to an S79 Sparviero. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1500868992677-1Y7H3II1TKPA3IF7G5V2/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454280077169-6E23Z03DO9TDXPCISFH3/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1505112843353-6YK5E78RYN8OGBJUTPHQ/large_000000+%284%29.jpg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 HMS RODNEY and her destroyer laying a smoke-screen, seen from the flight deck of the FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459816302848-1NJ817EC3XKC0RF6TZF0/image-asset.png Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459770527858-MCSS02EYYROCDDM0MV1H/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459817167443-ZTGEGZ498FPTUSTDWBZW/image-asset.jpeg Operation Husky: HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1943 HMS INDOMITABLE's official damage report diagram for the effects of the torpedo impact of July 16, 1943. Click the image to see a larger view. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/-document-1 daily 0.75 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454681443960-23BLS1EXOM3ADI21IGGS/vcommander-joseph-c.jpg + Document: Interview of Commander Joseph C. Clifton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/280c4cba-1870-4161-8a46-105147de7e49/GTD5ycIWoAAV7SK.jpg + Document: Interview of Commander Joseph C. Clifton - Make it stand out This is CDR Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Clifton enjoying some well-earned ice cream in the cockpit of his F6F Hellcat on USS Saratoga after a successful raid in 1944. In the U.S. Navy, ice cream became known as "gedunk" in the 1930s because the characters in the popular comic strip "Harold Teen" were regularly shown eating "gedunk sundaes" at a soda fountain. Today, gedunk refers to all junk food as well as the shop where it can be purchased on a ship. SOURCE: US Naval Institute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1454682072646-RXQ11VFHV7RK60KBTWH7/image-asset.jpeg + Document: Interview of Commander Joseph C. Clifton https://www.armouredcarriers.com/battle-for-ceylon-hms-indomitable-formidable daily 0.75 2024-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457943864080-B905ZESMS2S5S44U2WX2/HighFlight-OperationC4.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457866411845-YFAXRDGM3XEYOL8W1O5M/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable The antique 6 inch guns of HMS WARSPITE's secondary battery are juxtaposed with the 4 inch High Angle mount fitted during her 1930s refit. In the distance is HMS FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1474931814967-1R0TRFAZ8O2ZGH8NJL8W/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457924752897-M94IADU9WOUR0HPMV1FK/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Photograph taken from a Japanese aircraft during the initial high-level bombing attack. Repulse, near the bottom of the view, has just been hit by one bomb and near-missed by several more. Prince of Wales is near the top of the image, generating a considerable amount of smoke. Japanese writing in the lower right states that the photograph was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457910432532-QL3C1IZVMZYRJWTD3TQC/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Captain A L Bisset, RN, Captain of HMS FORMIDABLE, and Admiral Sir James Somerville seen walking on the flight deck of HMS FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460076560860-T6VZ8EEE1G6O2PDTU0Q8/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457926147656-ZKBD9HHP6TWZYLTL5UM0/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Click on the image for an enlarged view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460075856677-XVQII55RR78RU6D9UT5G/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457861431425-0JPMA19YN2OZT488IN2H/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS WARSPITE with FORMIDABLE, RESOLUTION and ROYAL SOVERIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1486683253852-EBT5LKXA4AKOCFYXHN38/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Royal Air Force cadets loading a torpedo onto an Albacore aircraft during training at Riddle Aerodrome. The Albacore was intended to operate as a torpedo bomber at night, like the Swordfish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457862402080-XMYB7GKHQYAZELXELG22/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457864067983-79MY2IJRGBKDAP08BC2G/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS Enterprise had been fitted with an experimental version of the twin 6 inch gun later used in the Leander class cruisers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457861162544-823K0VOQ1XJEANIH1EXF/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457863232335-1B70A1RUKAS45IJ0J3HL/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS EMERALD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460063641112-5RYJPOG8V006GFGIS0P6/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS CORNWALL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460063716398-9QU0FDFPGWMK1Q94XUWR/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS DORSETSHIRE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457862577506-6WV91VFTK90TJKC726LT/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS RESOLUTION with FORMIDABLE in April/May 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457912082207-RTWDDJJ5HDVR0T661L9N/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Fleet Air Arm maintenance ratings removing the engine from a Fairey Fulmar naval aircraft with the aid of a block and tackle against the background of jungle at China Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457911742742-YA0CHR85OV13LVUPH6DA/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable A Blenheim aircraft framed by palm trees on the jungle-fringed coastline of Ceylon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457860131161-0KF8REHE07S73QJ55DM5/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457855473519-FGQCXFKMZR4PV1PO5D98/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable The carriers and battleships of the Japanese Indian Ocean strike force departing Starling Bay, marked as being taken on March 30. A translation of the original caption reads: March, 1942: the task force proceeding across the Indian Ocean: the view, from behind an anti-aircraft gun, front port side of the Zuikaku, shows the battle group in a single column, veering to port directly in front of he Zuikaku, with the carrier Akagi in the lead, followed by carriers Hiryu and Soryu, then battleships Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna and Kongo. The Shokaku is probably cruising to the rear of the Zuikaku https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1501337346613-KQCXVTSTCNJ1NQYXL93F/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457851580581-1F97JBVQOHQ00CTRW0J0/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Aircraft carrier Akagi shortly after leaving Port Stirling, Celebes for the Indian Ocean, 26 Mar 1942; note B5N torpedo bombers on flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458545493864-P6ECN19RPHNMCV8XYBMC/25748dfe.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable The light carrier Ryujo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457863587169-P6O0GXLB9KWPMT4PLV8R/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS HERMES, with Swordfish ranged on deck, is pictured while at sea to the south of Ceylon in the company of a heavy cruiser, shortly before she was lost in April 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457861029164-SPWF65M143NMZICN6SFT/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS WARSPITE in April, May 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457861732655-YJ3H9OHAZ02ZUTNQ2ZL5/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS FORMIDABLE flies off Albacores in the Indian Ocean, as seen from HMS WARSPITE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457861857181-PPMBV2FAF28DNS1AG48Z/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS INDOMITABLE and WARSPITE, seen from the flight deck of FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459074754706-JQJ2O6DMKVR21ZE0UO4S/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457861257481-CKM4C7ZJCA2D2BNTQGNB/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS WARSPITE refuels HMAS NESTOR in April/May 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457862747904-4D9WVVU257R416CJVTV8/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS Ramillies during the Madagascar operation in May 1942. The R-class had inadequate freshwater distilling equipment, limiting their endurance to just three days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457866584386-OJERJ991DUH4UBEQII92/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS WARSPITE recovers her Walrus as oilers and tenders cluster about FORMIDABLE and other ships of the Eastern Fleet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457852199071-9W7AFN966XFPE3RZ0PDA/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Royal Canadian Air Force Squadron Leader Leonard Birchall, the "Saviour of Ceylon", aboard a Catalina aircraft before being shot down and captured near the island of Ceylon by the Japanese in 1942. Birchall’s crew transmitted a warning of the Japanese force approaching Ceylon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458364052178-HGUCMGKY18OC81LZJO9Z/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457912379434-IKADMMWCNTHIRQJVY6C4/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Catalina Mark IVB, JX431 A, of No. 205 Squadron RAF, flying along the coast near the unit's base at Koggala, Ceylon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457851964259-Z50BYH3N6ELKAP6SY1GC/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi on April 5, 1942 during the Indian Ocean Raid as seen from a Kate that has just taken off from her deck. The aircraft on the flight deck preparing for takeoff are also B5N Kates. Kure Maritime Museum photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457856433236-42YJY5VZIMXG0737BU8G/image-asset.png Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable With translation annotations, this is an original depiction of Nagumo's Kido Butai daytime cruising disposition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458195897830-NR1AYRYQTXXGUV8FD7OL/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable An Aichi E13A recon seaplane launches from the portside catapult of the Myōkō-class cruiser Ashigara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457851654691-DBMKFXH6OR2X5UTKGZ8A/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable D3A dive bomber taking off from carrier Akagi, Indian Ocean, 5 Apr 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491789120830-89IQF80MQCFOFEECP869/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Mobile Radar Unit: AMES Type 9 mobile unit deployed in the field. The aerials were supported on the two 105-ft collapsible towers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457929520938-7Y43FYHMOS7Q4I8KZBVE/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Theis B5N Kate is believed to have been the one from which Fuchida coordinated the April 5 raid on Ceylon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457924154587-YJBXF3R69WTU7ERB9YA7/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457860393485-4JC24CZNKUIL954ZZ4IK/Pilot+Officer+Jimmy+Whalen%2C+RCAF%2C+one+of+the+RAF+30+Squadron+defenders+of+Ceylon%2C+walks+from+his+Hawker+Hurricane+IIB+%3FRS-W%3F+on+April+5%2C+1942%2C+the+day+after+he+claimed+three+Japanese+aircraft+shot+down.+Source%3A+Imperial+War+Museum Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Pilot Officer Jimmy Whalen, RCAF, one of the RAF 30 Squadron defenders of Ceylon, walks from his Hawker Hurricane IIB “RS-W” on April 5, 1942, the day after he claimed three Japanese aircraft shot down. Source: Imperial War Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457912537532-RJ8DGTH6A9DDE1F6YHY8/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable A Catalina taxies to moorings after touching down at Koggala, Ceylon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457859586513-2RP0MCM7ZNFGCRQSIYD6/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Click on either image to be taken to the Royal Air Force Command's gallery page for HMS Indomitable and Ceylon, April - May 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457923658619-EMV1EVNSKZ6N5FPUXZGY/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Royal Air Force Blenheim I light bombers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457911603697-OGUKHUFFT2PZF2RZ46E0/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable A Blenheim takes off from Racecourse airfield, Colombo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458452941331-11MJWUG9EYPPUIHG9KYB/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Aircraft prepare for take-off aboard Akagi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457855550121-FR0OU6H2Z9KL7OAAAOZL/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Aircraft ranged on Akagi's deck ready to strike at the heavy cruisers Cornwall and Dorsetshire, April 5, 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457858593722-2B4W383JPJQWID0VRDGW/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857589120-ASOFO7JBSCME3M37R01K/a+cornwall+left+dorsetshire+right.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857598084-LGBBMBDVT6H3767ZY5H8/b+cornwall+left+dorsetshire+right.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857606867-8VL059SJ4CD3DQP5CKEH/c+cornwall+left+dorsetshire+right.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857625926-G5J9ECLOO3PD88NA6MHP/e+cornwall+left+dorsetshire+right.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857633515-49BAGQW1OU8TZHC0ROKB/f+dorsetshire+left+distant+cornwall+right+near+invisible.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857616390-Y93CP796XQ5QBUFW13F5/d+cornwall+left+dorsetshire+right.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857642053-G983NLVZUDYD49V6E16J/g+Cornwall.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459915700753-DCREUQU1FX17L9X06LT8/i+Cornwall.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857666298-TBZ568UIRELM366WHIXK/j+Cornwall.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857650331-NLLOF7OSFNDIGJDPA6TI/h+Cornwall+left+distant%252C+Dorsetshire+near+right+sinking.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457911057373-PFBLQF6U9606FY5MEKKE/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Albacores prepare for take-off from HMS FORMIDABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457930831917-5WSS8E7TRZMT0PC5Z6AI/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457908768853-P44XTX67PXR6C72DA885/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Albacores are arranged on HMS INDOMITABLE's flight deck from the forward and aft lifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1472789532800-FUVFTGE2IC1MGY9C0I5O/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable A Grumman Martlet fighter of No 888 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm operating from the aircraft carrier HMS FORMIDABLE, is seen flying over HMS WARSPITE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457861979155-ISOK6QXIH02A4RUBC68K/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457909113015-J7S0E8PUWWH1Z1WQ07KH/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Fulmars and Albacores on the forward deck of HMS INDOMITABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457928537960-TRB7PTA2T711QQ4ELX47/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable A Zero takes of from Akagi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457912793648-P9BD5A2ZB2S9GMIZA1XL/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable The sacrifice of Ceylon's Catalina force repeatedly averted disaster. HereRAF groundcrew and local Singhalese lower a Consolidated Catalina of No. 240 Squadron RAF into the water after undergoing repairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458437333747-6BIN29X7RJJL2LZV3I91/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS RAMILLIES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457856738223-HWNB6567EJ9FHXEH2NIA/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable The caption translates to: "Two of Zuikaku's Kates departing from Trincomalee harbor having just bombarded the port on 9 April 1942.". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457931017573-OOTEZHEQQMURZ7GN5JNH/AI-316a_zps5bf01ed7.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457931180746-CHW1SW1JBU4JE3MTO6RY/AI-207photo4_zpsb08d5e27.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable A D3A takes off from ZUIKAKU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458437533146-HGI5H245NB2GYSYREQQ7/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Hurricane IIbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458438235819-P1PBAHMI5F0QKSZ3QNQJ/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwm.org.uk%2Fcollections%2Fitem%2Fobject%2F205211981 Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458437820717-BDBN6W49U3HYEXZQQVPK/large+%285%29.jpg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457943695101-WTZEGHJS0JKVZELDRZ8A/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMS Hermes, sunk off Ceylon on April 9, 1942. Picture by Charles Morgan in the book The Hermes Adventure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458117803460-0LYCUTV6RFLM1I2FW9IN/image-asset.png Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable An incredible sequence of photos showing the devastation on HMS Hermes flight deck as she struggles towards the coast of Ceylon. Picture: Charles Morgan, in the book Hermes Adventure by Rex Morgan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457858448690-M6HCATC1IFK3NPV2MS0J/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457943542909-AJ2N7N32GY1YJPXHDYZO/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457858482885-DC5OUKQ1PUF8B90TLG7U/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457930154147-Y97EFQ0TRZ6FJABU0DKA/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable HMAS VAMPIRE being bombed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457857125944-GQ3ZTHFOBPN2PNO6KECC/image-asset.png Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable This wartime edition of the Japanese magazine "Weekly Photographic Journal" shows the destruction of HMAS Vampire (though flipped). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457923411452-6B747GRI8XUMDRNR1056/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Blenheim Mk I's in formation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459153218921-ZCHRJQPARPIGQA1GCGCC/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457909328577-O7IOIOT6ISBPF3R3WXCQ/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable A game of deck hockey on the flight deck of HMS INDOMITABLE. Note the Sea Hurricane on its outrigger between S1 Pom Pom and the 4.5in turrets. The airlock part-way down the lift-well is for rapid access to the forward medical station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457931459053-NJ34VE1CG65UDX5OGWIK/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458439384349-PYX1ENZGB75CC2ZEO3WS/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable Admiral Sir James Somerville, KCB, KBE, DSO, allowing Prince Chang, his pet Siamese cat to play with his epaulet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1457854730729-34NJTP93EXD3KE5PT929/image-asset.png Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable A pdf file of the original 1943 "Battle Summary" compiled for the Defence Information Service can be downloaded by clicking the above image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460077336868-0S5N8364ZUPO0NE9L88Z/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1458898277158-O3C1T47ZPMOBDV958XN5/image-asset.jpeg Battle for Ceylon, HMS Indomitable & Formidable https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hms-audacious-class-armoured-flight-deck daily 0.75 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460623023469-IMVNUF9PY3K62G78KA1S/IMG_0077.JPG HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460623869607-OPCJKS7GX6GDA28JVYTV/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwm.org.uk%2Fcollections%2Fitem%2Fobject%2F205016320 HMS Audacious Class HMS Eagle in what was very close to her 1945 configuration in 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460632974274-22RT2I2OQLUYGLUDGENI/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460682170373-ZBJ39FHQ0QAB0YG996HL/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460625237449-58UXACMSLQHA9V9FNHD5/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460628609534-TMGU41YF8GJLZ83ZR3JM/image-asset.png HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460632847241-LVLHMK5F1XYLPNRPKPWU/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460627731864-61YL5MEEWAZMWQG1EG56/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460681257442-L4EOES48HQIYHVTRQX3T/image-asset.png HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460632796667-ZZQ2NBAPCMPYVEAVDHZN/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460628768555-YP3624CFZ44TRCF8S4MM/image-asset.png HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460625844788-6C0JMAE3ZR14QRJF1CUJ/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class Click on the above image to be taken to the artist's web page. The cut-away shows Ark Royal, which was somewhat more modified over the 1945 design than her sister Eagle. But the basic configuration remains the same - and the hangar arrangement is clearly evident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460683008991-LDZYN4J8RC7AENQBKDP3/image-asset.png HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460625674698-81N5IQOD2Q00DC4EKZGO/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1509766921308-MJGYBNP50EOGRPOXREIR/DNshsR4WsAE3s_n.jpg HMS Audacious Class Ark Royal undergoes builder's trials in 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460683273745-2XUV6AK4DA5EO3NSMELP/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460632741159-O96FEWPQALVX0RGYC6XU/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460632544534-6ZJR8X28WTI2FBDBMO66/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460632683516-PZ7FOZ74ZNIRFXXHDPLL/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460623731092-CCVBPOXM8VK1TV9TNE0Q/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460625732276-J9DGOWASC27GSW3MDDYD/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460682321825-ESZRB54YTQ3VOW38T8LK/image-asset.png HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460631621098-C9Y6S1B11Y1ZE6ZCUQAH/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class HMS EAGLE at Mers el Kebir, Oran, when she paid an official visit to French North Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460682701201-C6Y2N3RXWXSV63B6RVD4/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class Audacious class aircraft carrier HMS EAGLE underway off Southsea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460631701771-XAGS44VKOZKHU39ZDR76/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class Audacious class aircraft carrier HMS EAGLE enters Portsmouth Harbour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460682356198-6RLG5BMHFCHEIQBGR4Y5/image-asset.png HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460625636242-01KO0DHVQW1V4H3RNVLI/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460632932208-UIB3FI90GYJM40MSO1XP/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460627480513-UAU98EV7MXEXXEYOY2XM/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class Click on the above image to be taken to the original artist's web site. The cutaway shows HMS Ark Royal, completed to a more modified design than Eagle. The flight deck arrangement had been adapted to accommodate an angled flight deck and a side lift. Its underlying arrangement is still evident, however. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460625135110-BQORSETF92IF6HO9W699/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460629066678-WYETQUHFDZ1MZ7FB27BN/image-asset.png HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460632598295-JRN1K1Q7XQEXR81UKH5L/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1460625213562-7SPONEHSEEGGQGJ5DCSL/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1472980154153-KADRDR4UE1WLXGDK7KIK/image-asset.jpeg HMS Audacious Class https://www.armouredcarriers.com/operation-pedestal daily 0.75 2016-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459744868697-BTLPCIU6AETYN5HI5DYI/6988074921_0ee450d0dd_k.jpg + Report by Vice-Admiral E.N. Syfret. Operation Pedestal https://www.armouredcarriers.com/operation-meridian-the-palembang-strike daily 0.75 2024-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483531049383-23ZWUSR29QW3BMABJNUR/IMG_1244.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1459907625767-E6D0CUVD98WGJ34SZU8O/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Ki-21 'Sally' bomber is surrounded by spray kicked up by the close-range anti-aircraft armaments of British Pacific Fleet carriers and escorts. A Seafire can be seen climbing out of the close-defence zone on the right-edge of the picture. This Sally, and up to six others, were shot down. This picture is taken from HMS INDEFATIGABLE, with an unidentified armoured carrier and the battleship King George V in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483524877287-CV2S5S6KO62Q9CRMBC4D/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Lieutenant Commander Mainprice, right, briefs the pilots and aircrew of 854 Avenger squadron over a detailed model aboard HMS Illustrious . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483528463409-R1YURM6Z2U8QIVMSFG8P/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes The battleship HMS KING GEORGE V following in the wake of the ILLUSTRIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1515739330516-Y0WPYUW114X7VJP5VR27/large_000000+%281%29.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes One of the escorting destroyers, HMS WHIRLWIND, seen from the ILLUSTRIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483669379613-5DLU8P7OLBA3UCD36LN3/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483669393622-ZT27NTLRCSXNX0PDOOJA/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Click on the above for expanded views https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1487022052496-114IFX2BN6RTKRMUTOWP/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu (Nick) fighter after the surrender of Singapore in 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1487022933665-EA8K90KYSHP0ZBLBJHTM/image-asset.png Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Ki-21 Sally is pictured flying over dense jungle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483533423835-IBKVJB2MJO9R9NF9NW12/IMG_0878.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Gunners and deck crew pose for the camera aboard HMS INDOMITABLE. A censor has crudely attempted to erase the radar from the top of the starboard-aft high-angle director. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483528895608-0W88PLMDSHXHMLVTXUEP/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes The battleship HMS KING GEORGE V in her Far East dress at Trincomalee. Astern is a carrier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483528592392-IFXBBTZTUXRPMA0XB624/A+28003+Indefatigable+from+Illustrious.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes The fleet carrier HMS INDEFATIGABLE, steaming alongside the ILLUSTRIOUS in February 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492127145940-N125368JTJ68JQG8YBAH/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Sub-Lt John Haberfield of the Royal NZ Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Indomitable. Six days after this photograph was taken, he was shot down and taken prisoner by the Japanese. He was murdered by being beheaded on Changi beach on July 31, 1945. He was 26. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483526362669-QS92JJU9KDHI20IA6M1X/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes This map shows the flight paths of the strike forces of Meridian I & II for the attacks on the Pladjoe and Songei Gerong (dotted lines) refineries immediately south of Palembang city. Of particular note are the location of the Japanese airfields, and the relative position of the targets on the opposite bank of the tributary to the River Mosei. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492127314234-YLMINSUNXJ3056K6VW06/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483528811686-AKOAD1DBG193L7XMG7UP/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Grumman Avenger of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS bombing up for the raid on the Japanese Oil Refineries, Palembang, Sumatra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1515739193482-N0O81OD10JOD2OEVRABX/large_000000.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes An Avenger taking off from ILLUSTRIOUS at dawn to attack Japanese oil refineries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483530755747-LSSOLSSWUN80ARM80BHY/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes An Avenger of HMS INDOMITABLE's 857 squadron takes off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1505105973489-BB0IWXKGCPLACCFBV4OY/large_000000+%283%29.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes An Avenger parked on the flight deck shows her "war decorations", 4 bombing missions and 1 unusual credit of a flying bomb shot down, aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS in March 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483532798410-OVYQRESMMF8NNN1UXDX0/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Corsair about to be moved off HMS ILLUSTRIOUS' aft lift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483531768144-U2D9GWD5XM4W6O049P4O/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Firefly is ranged at dawn aboard HMS INDEFATIGABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483527942461-9ZGB112AMDP44GPBTI2A/A+29244.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Bombs detonate and burning fuel begins to spread through the Pladjoe refinery in this photo, taken as the air strike unfolded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483527324779-2UJHL6LTFATMMYD86C7Z/1945_05_00_palembang_attack.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Smoke rises from the Plajdoe refinery in this post-strike reconnaisance photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483531206027-K7U8RA8CJIQ435QMH7FO/ww2memoir-Indomitable-WhiteingIm052.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Firefly from HMS INDEFATIGABLE passes over HMS INDOMITABLE which has a range of Hellcats and Avengers ready for launch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483570731924-KTNXMV1PN00QZB5BA8H6/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes An Avenger from HMS VICTORIOUS crosses the Sumatran coast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1576829524620-QDEKCPXC16LUCRSDTS56/054b680ec5d4007ff534debbb1599b45.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483624381776-BOY3F2DTFZB3BQQ3B8LB/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A gun-camera image of what is most likely a Ki43 Oscar. This image is pasted on Don Sheppard’s logbook page for January 1945 when he shot down four Japanese aircraft. Phicture: Sheppard papers / via Navy Blue Fighter Pilot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483531861374-T73CMQNS3WY80QTMO2IR/A+Hellcat+is+hoisted+from+the+hangar+of+HMS+INDOMITABLE. Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483529838299-0XNCR8VRFBG0YDDKYBSL/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes An Avenger coming to land on ILLUSTRIOUS after bombing Japanese oil refineries at Palembang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483623426915-LT7JR1NMT8FYB1KQW1FX/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Corsair on final approach to HMS Illustrious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1484636431561-SJE2DRCAY0XTLG0RD5I3/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Corsair goes into the water after hitting the prop wash of the Corsair about to be trapped aboard HMS Illustrious. It is possible this is Norman Hanson's ditching, as described below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483527159921-PXFF4PPN10VHOMEVSQZO/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Pladjoe refinery burns after the Meridian I attack. The more compact Songei Gerong refinery, the target of the follow-up Meridian II strike, sits in the bottom-left of the picture with the river Komerine separating the two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483528126771-VWRC8USA71F5X45UPAL5/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Pladjoe refinery after Meridian I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483532953943-UZHLTJIURCHV18PL2QKG/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Seafire after it went into HMS INDEFATIGABLE's crash barrier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483528686209-801VPQ4VX7FCJD1RRITY/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A fleet auxiliary, HMS EMPIRE SAVAGE, refuelling a destroyer (HMS WAKEFUL) alongside while HMS ILLUSTRIOUS refuels using the line-astern method. In the distance is the cruiser HMS ARGONAUT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483534219186-0PGY7O6ZUCEPULUMO3DB/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Corsairs being ranged on HMS VICTORIOUS' deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483530836375-7NS2VW91SUYWJ89IS3UG/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes An Avenger takes off from what appears to be HMS VICTORIOUS. The roundels on the wings have obviously been hastily painted-over to make them conform to Eastern Fleet standards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483532014824-DS9XXJJK2LCNFILZXILB/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Hellcat aboard HMS INDOMITABLE is ranged on deck as dawn breaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483533117966-R1HSMMBJ7XW2LALCN99L/May44-Illustrious.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Aircraft are seen silhouetted against the clouds as they 'form up' while a Corsair begins its take-off run from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483532118068-4B5GZMAX01RUCXLAEZOE/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Seafires warm up on the deck aboard HMS INDEFATIGABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483529203662-G47MD4GR2AO3BU2YH9VC/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes This reconnaisance photo taken from Major Hay's Corsair shows bombs bursting within Songei Gerong refinery during Operation Meridian II. A tanker is burning in the river, middle-right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483533280283-U39K9B7C1J0QESTXY1JT/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Fleet Air Arm Avengers carried four 500lb bombs in each of the Meridian raids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483572285713-CNTY1NZ2S9HGIMS84SFY/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes This picture, taken by the observer of an FAA Avenger as it dove on Soengi Gerong, shows another Avenger at the moment it struck a balloon cable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483624594371-9YTOCZZZUW3HSCWLBTJS/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483525789386-1AGYP56CSGBPK634UQLV/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes This photograph, taken by Air Coordinator Major Hay during the Meridian II attack on Songei Gerong, has been marked by analysts to highlight the presence of a Japanese fighter. The refinery can be seen burning in the top-left of the image, and the tanker on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483531545094-CIHSWXR66774ZVY6MCYO/A+27168.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Fairey Firefly of 1770 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm with wheels and hook down is ready to land on board HMS INDEFATIGABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483534432459-T2TGVYO18R08RKTD7V9J/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Corsairs and an Avenger wait their turn being struck below as another Avenger is lowered on the forward lift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483529932387-G0P8FMGQTBIGM9QDSUAY/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Seafire (top right) having shot down a Japanese aircraft (middle left) turns away as an Avenger prepares to land on its carrier in the aftermath of Meridian II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483529732692-LNARTESCPQQHWT5SVLGM/2016-04-25+23_30_07-HMS+ILLUSTRIOUS+%28HU+129662%29.png Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Click on this photo, taken moments before the one below, for an enlarge view of the Seafire's attack on a Japanese 'Sally' bomber (labeled on right side of image). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483524739865-8ICACCIIP7DNNSBKMWW0/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes The remains of two Japanese "Sally" bombers burn on the water as a third skims the waves just below the horizon (far right) after a Seafire pulls away from its attack (centre top). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483616979737-MY2VBL72C2MD5IREB1VM/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A Seafire is 'waved off' after making a poor deck approach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483534026839-BHJZ9TO0KKX7FA23LHIG/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, with her deck park crowded amidships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483530371711-422YSSKKVJ606G323Y89/Episode2_3_22.jpg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes Fires rage inside Soengi Gerong refinery after the Palembang Meridian II strike. Note the burning tanker circled and labelled in the bottom-right of the photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483529046374-2WWA52Q1258UA0QOCDK8/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes The nerve centre of the Japanese Oil refinery at Songai, Gerong, near Palembang, Sumatra, blazing fiercely after the Grumman Avenger attack flown off carriers of the Eastern Fleet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483525576046-EP89YSMBCOV2AJGIH3TW/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes A post-strike photograph showing the fires spreading within Songei Gerong refinery. The damage caused days earlier to the Pladjoe refinery can be seen in the foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483534090169-TDYO0Y7WRXHIF107YR8N/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes HMS ILLUSTRIOUS and an escorting destroyer in Far Eastern waters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483663614175-5I6U0PM7WMYB49PPVA00/image-asset.jpeg Operation Meridian: The Palembang strikes https://www.armouredcarriers.com/operation-judgement-swordfish-attack-taranto-from-hms-illustrious daily 0.75 2023-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466210840557-QIY5FCWYA0CWN7J5LGVS/Illustrious_1941_Shot2.JPG Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1468123974517-1YD4J946DJS3SO371BWW/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Preparing a Swordfish aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS for torpedo dropping exercises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1510524852155-O4K2ZUQVL8VUPYUXNHY0/b7642d9343ab88d7f62421f48052406b.jpg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto USS Saratoga and Lexington off Diamond Head, 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466211875655-JY26R0Z5BM4RLOWVBYD8/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS GLORIOUS in 1935. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466405675225-F3JTJ0GRXVPLXMV0AXLC/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466215064587-DHWUFQIH9JU9VZA9WYKM/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS EAGLE with MALAYA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466214513056-QE1VFHMXIT15UAB1RAS6/image-asset.png Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Damage to the Italian battleship GIULIO CESARE sustained from a 15-inch shell hit from HMS WARSPITE off Calabria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466212441721-3KNRJRD72EJ4RUUY83S5/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS EAGLE, stalwart of the Mediterranean Fleet in the opening years of World War II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1467009805998-GTBC8LB0M52E0RAY7AVE/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466212564372-UBGGQRJ4XTFW7ZH1XLHM/image-asset.png Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto A newly completed HMS ILLUSTRIOUS in Plymouth Sound, June 1940. Note the port-side aft 4.5in turret, with guns elevated and aimed over the aft flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466212781724-64V09RGBRMVHATT6EWDB/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466213125192-C9LQ1345BUYME2ZEF9MW/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466212862217-J0LYWBBG77FKM1EW57IJ/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466213380509-K9M47F5GLPLRJR1SEVSL/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1467009396601-W1WC6NMTMPUKNORUGXVW/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1468583930471-TVT9EA48Y8T9DMV7B0GA/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466215626871-VV3T7UXL3RQM12OWDUMR/image-asset.png Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Operators with early examples of radar sets aboard an RN warship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1467008095877-71E5BHXAEEN92XE7RSIR/image-asset.png Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466213760589-B5UVBG7YX0QPYLCSP7UL/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS WARSPITE, ILLUSTRIOUS and two "R" class battleships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1468584368844-YRB7Q4CFWNA2AJGNVA6H/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Cruisers and destroyers arrayed in Taranto's Mare Piccolo in the 1930s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466404845321-OM0XO37QL4AZB103PIEI/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Battleships are seen anchored in Mar Grande in this Maryland reconnaissance photo taken in the lead-up to Operation Judgement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466404496468-K7K5MSQTT5V4EJZ24EAF/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto The line of destroyers and cruisers arrayed along the quay in Mar Piccolo, as captured by a Maryland reconnaissance flight shortly before Operation Judgement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466214650812-6AB7EH0KW6BIWJNJAGS2/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto The cruiser EMANUELE FILIBERTO DUCA D'AOSTA (foreground) steaming with (left to right) the battleship VITTORIO VENETO, the cruiser EUGENIO DE SAVOIA, and the battleship LITTORIO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466216113326-EVPSFRT9T4HKOMO8APDI/image-asset.png Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS ILLUSTRIOUS landing Swordfish in June 1940. Picture: Fleet Air Arm Museum CARS 1/171 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1468130796502-OQMHX9SE1PLDIRB9KFGO/2016-07-10+15_34_58-Jamie%27s+Kindle+for+PC+2+-+Stringbags+in+Action.jpg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466223231866-DQAVM3CF00NBSG5D0D7C/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto British troops embark the Modified Leander-class light cruiser HMAS SYDNEY en route for Crete https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466223695105-K2LU1LRTI8MOVIQVLWDE/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS ORION, left, with a modified Town class cruiser operating off Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1482281167144-VOTVAEUUORIS27JUQAIU/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Fulmars of 806 Squadron and a Swordfish ranged on HMS Illustrious in November 1940. Note the two Sea Gladiators of 813 Fighter Flight tucked away aft of the island. They were transferred from HMS Eagle for the Taranto strike to increase the number of fighters on board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466214022540-Q13YF67PR2Z3TEUDSJRY/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466224180727-7F41DRRQT98A82D0WX96/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Bombs fall astern of HMS Berwick in November 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1467008128891-KIGBP2AYWM4EQ49GGDYA/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto A poor quality but significant photograph as it shows two Sea Gladiators, bottom left, on outriggers while aboard HMS Illustrious during Operation Judgement. A Fulmar is about to touch-down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466227108092-FQ4WWEKGN1ELDFX795OX/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Fulmars of ARK ROYAL's 807 Squadron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466225631295-OWE4MXY1AJLS7Z69PW07/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto An Italian Cant z506 reconnaissance seaplane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466217092585-NDX5995JYVJJQUTIBUS8/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Swordfish are prepared for take-off aboard HMS ARK ROYAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466225218339-GOQZK2BWZOUN4FS4V6EC/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS VALIANT, with her destroyer escort passing through the Sicilian Narrows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466217746898-LLAOK3QZTGZTHGW83MUO/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto Bombs burst in the water around HMS ARK ROYAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466228713192-DJP5N98MCORJR0YVS9Q9/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto A flight of Italian SM79 Sparrowhawk bombers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466217595994-DMQXXX9UV0CMA2OLIASZ/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS ARK ROYAL at dusk in November 1940, from the deck of HMS SHEFFIELD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466225447179-8BU8NTSBI8OQIOES14VN/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto An Italian Cant 501 seaplane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466224669424-8E1LA7DHIF3N6Y9GYP1C/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS AJAX, looking astern, at sea in the Mediterranean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466216206309-HGFR3H7C0XIIDL5W2SH0/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto HMS ILLUSTRIOUS with Fulmars and Swordfish spotted ready for take-off on her aft deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466404300265-MYEMTX8FI4GTEL1AAT8K/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto One of the reconnaissance photographs delivered to HMS ILLUSTRIOUS the day before Operation Judgement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1466405262492-1H4OQ8UMD11NX8OSPQMR/image-asset.jpeg Operation Judgement: HMS Illustrious raids Taranto 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Commanding Officer https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm199167-letter-from-commanderinchief-mediterranean daily 0.75 2016-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1469344452172-HYVSAKJ9V4WBEB4YPIGU/large+%287%29.jpg + ADM199/167: Letter from Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean https://www.armouredcarriers.com/japanese-aircraft-carrier-taiho-armoured-flight-decks daily 0.75 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475416237278-TKPL4GB2I6RRX6U7IOR3/IMG_0053.JPG IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475417993142-NLP0RNYNU6DEHPPTHJTU/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck The Japanese armoured flight deck aircraft carrier Taiho, pictured between May 15-16, 1944, at Tawitawi, Borneo. A Shokaku class carrier is in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475455584568-1FTWS7JHHQ0J610MQ36S/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck IJN Shokaku represented the template upon which future Japanese fleet carrier designs were based. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1496705232828-KRZ4AI8PYR2LI25MTOOL/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475416529659-Z8WV5EA4GYUKWO4QR7JE/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475416605035-47FDI8TA5O0Z2C778DX9/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck Click on the image to be taken to the artist's web page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475416955803-5SIQ70N3CJ00YX3FJLXO/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck From Encyklopedia Okretow Wojennych 39: Taiho Volume 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475455867460-TMVD636SA39K8M69QK3R/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475417076660-I4G7O7ZZI0KVL75NHJBH/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck From Encyklopedia Okretow Wojennych 39: Taiho Volume 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475417502740-WXDI7ILC064518BWWPLS/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475455915999-66160GIYOLICM3Y9CZ7Z/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475918056571-YLDB70EOWFC2J7EXVOST/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck Click on the image to be taken to the artist's web page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475455989939-SUJ3YF7T4NJHYCTZATZF/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475418092454-QFNOXQGJJ6CMX7ZJUAZI/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck A close-up from a photo higher on this page of Taiho, between May 15-16, 1944, at Tawitawi, Borneo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475418140269-WA7AX62GUEUO7QNYHU7D/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck A poor quality image, but the only known image showing the ship from overhead on the bows, of IJN Taiho at Tawitawi, Borneo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475456025580-HQGNKSMMC1GKPBWYG5BR/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475418327548-2D4AYODT7CCFTMJUHHYN/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck IJN taiho with the battleship Nagato at anchor while at Tawitawi, Borneo, in May 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1510977581397-O2I38UL6U82F83QKAW89/Formidable%2C-May4.jpg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475418507754-YAZ5G1S40E0UKEUMH3UF/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck IJN Taiho at Tawitawi, Borneo, May 15-16, 1944. A tent has been positioned in the middle of her flight deck forward of the island to offer some protection from the searing tropical sun to her deck crew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475417628909-TIG254EZJ5N8ZA1A6GR5/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475417643584-R55FF99RKBSWVKVZ5V9G/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck In a major design flaw, Taiho's aviation fuel storage facilities were not fully encompassed by the main belt and torpedo protection system https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475417177019-QFAULH1146STTFCPPTWH/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck Click on the image to be taken to the artist's web page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1510977696895-9BD46HYFKMQRQELRH4IP/Illustrious-April6.jpg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475418189285-FPX9D67F6ZF88UO2ASPL/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck A composite from four of the handful of known images of Taiho, close-up on the bridge structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1510977624865-XOP3M63B0BR7OGLBDQ0G/Formidable%2C-May9.jpg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1522551342683-U0P2LDHZ1EZKAYN7G6OC/51eZzFLLsHL._SL500_SX358_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475417382277-J875FDBTQT70Z1TBFJLK/image-asset.jpeg IJN Taiho: The Japanese armoured flight deck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1510977754740-Y8SI5QM1OBR85RGN80GI/Indefatigable-April1.jpg IJN Taiho: The Japanese 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Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475623273143-0GR2KVL8HFIIOUO7FDW5/large_000000+%282%29.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475623273215-2YMNC5Z1NMMIJ3Z5RV4D/large_000000+%283%29.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475623274066-JU5U9S4PFCH7U2EFWS9P/large_000000+%284%29.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475623274926-8J7KUO4ESGKZY148EIYY/large_000000+%285%29.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable 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A Fairey Barracuda is on the lift going down the hangar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475566946363-PG23EP6WE11WFFOXE79L/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Fleet Air Arm pilots and observers sleep on camp beds on the quarterdeck of HMS Illustrious to catch what cool sea air they can during the Andaman Island operation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475662514318-35S4ADGZAYYRMIXPJSGJ/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475567199179-U4VF13W7NGVK4N50WSN5/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable The Chance-Vought Corsair fighter flown by Sub Lieut John R Baker, RCNVR, of Toronto, with its wings folded. On the elevator can be seen a large hole made by a Japanese anti aircraft shell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475567124445-1I56EPLL8Z3HKX790SK8/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Sub Lieut (A) John R Baker, RCNVR, of Toronto, Canada, looking at the hole that a Japanese shell tore in the elevator of his Chance-Vought Corsair fighter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475567788788-PV720P8KURW3OZSMSH78/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable A Barracuda in Eastern Fleet markings flies over an ASR submarine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475567901145-XA060D8665DGNL0H4XAK/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Eastern Fleet big ships off Sabang. left to right: HMS KENYA, QUEEN ELIZABETH, VALIANT, RENOWN, FS RICHELIEU and HMS CUMBERLAND. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492129226676-W803R1WEDSQRZN257YIV/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable HMS Queen Elizabeth, Flagship of C in C Eastern Fleet, Admiral Sir James Somerville, in the bay of Bengal during the action against the Japanese at Sabang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568426694-OOWXOZXBV0JOOCYZQFEA/Sabang.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568432374-8R27VSXTUSA6K11EQLMZ/Sabang+14April44.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568437135-CGMAYEP8A458K4HA7UH0/Sabang_Airfield+%281%29.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568444382-WT2PI8Y81DUXWCS8JPF3/Sabang_Bombardment+%281%29.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568447535-TLDI98PKJG6Z21ODEX7M/Sabang_Harbor+%281%29.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568066599-1AQC55VIEZ5FEDPHZ2PN/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Admiral Sir James Somerville, C in C Eastern Fleet, watches operations from the bridge of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568835427-SWS7R7TYVGOYXE6JY1ME/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Lieut Cdr (A) Harrington, leader of a Hellcat Squadron, briefs his fighter pilots who are to form a fleet umbrella during the attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568927838-YHJHCREMH5KWS8S5S34P/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable HMS HOWE seen from the flight deck of INDOMITABLE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568776275-ECU8CCI2U89B9ROCERBI/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable A stick of bombs bursting on 3,500 ton Japanese supply ship during the surprise attack on Emmahaven, the port of Padang. Four direct hits were obtained on the ship. Hits can also be seen on a 2,500 ton supply vessel lying astern, and both vessels were left burning fiercely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475568724699-Y0LPKTB54XKUUNYKQ0RM/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Fairey Barracudas and Grumman Hellcats being ranged on the flight deck of HMS INDOMITABLE as the sun goes down. HMS HOWE is astern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475623233945-COD5K4T81JHIJ01NDF2G/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1567587325086-K5FIHXXKP2N2GY9HKV0Z/A29572_Medan_Operaton_Light_Hellcat_Pic.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable The airstrike on Medan, as photographed by a PR Hellcat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1478852144787-R0PC4W2WSW1TUGSRB2KK/A+26395.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Barracudas crossing the coast of Sumatra on their way to the target area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475569470464-6UOFRS9GAIUHDITX8FV9/2016-01-16+12_58_38-Jamie%27s+Kindle+for+PC+2+-+The+British+Pacific+Fleet_+The+Royal+Navy%27s+Most+Power.png Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable A Barracuda from HMS VICTORIOUS photographed during the attack on Sigli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475569213357-IQ35ZGE52FFZ9RWEWX1L/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Activity on the flight deck of HMS VICTORIOUS before the attack on Japanese maintenance facilities on Sigli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475576565653-VKMAXGJJK43L22MWISRD/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Barracudas are ranged on the deck of INDOMITABLE in August 1944. Astern are HMS HOWE and HMS VICTORIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475567365655-GZJSTO5BFFIPONG5SWHX/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable The cruiser HMS CUMBERLAND off Car Nicobar island at sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475567561357-5N1RMLTZRS8LJTLRGM7R/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable HMS SUFFOLK fires a broadside at Car Nicobar, during the concerted bombardment of the island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475662592442-ELYDN6VF3SQ3NIGJN852/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475662689843-2YE5EFBW1PARO6BRSV50/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable HMS UNICORN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1509575396020-TAGL0MMPBNQZE6GA3J1E/2017-11-02+08_58_03-111-SC+380518.tif+%40+23.5%25+%28Gray_8%23%29.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Aboard the aircraft carrier HMS "ILLUSTRIOUS"... HMS INDOMITABLE taken from "Admiral's Platform" on HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. Cruiser HMS Newcastle in the background. Fleet is on way back to Trincomalee Ceylon. SEAC photo unit (US). Photographer: PFC Russell Scott. December 16 thru 23, 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1509575640047-1J5YM022H6P65AAOOYID/Command1.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Shot made on HMS INDOMITABLE by Lt Bennett: Left to right: Capt I.A.S. Eccles, Admiral Vian, and J.P. Wright, Commander, Admirals Chief of Staff, looking at chart in captain's cabin. SEAC Photo Unit (US). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475566724587-ZJG1X0N555898W3F1J2E/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Steward K Mallinder, of Sheffield, wheeling a 500 pounder during bombing up in preparation for the strike on Belawan Deli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475566575237-E2RYQETF2THZAJJKMFRG/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable On board an Eastern Fleet carrier during the strike on Belawan Deli. Chance-Vought Corsair fighters are ranged on the flight deck. HMS ILLUSTRIOUS' ship's cat can be seen on the right centre of the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475566807909-2CIFS9R8O3UUXUFZEOXB/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable A Chance-Vought Corsair fighter prepares for take off. Note the effect around the propeller by moisture in the air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1509575792198-B066KSK23YE8YG03Z3MY/Bridge.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable L. to R: Captain Charles Lambe, CB, CVO, and Commander Arthur Wallis on ships bridge (HMS ILLUSTRIOUS). Picture: SEAC Photo Unit (US). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475641569971-227F0DWFFWFLQAEUYFD6/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Men folding the wings of a Fairey Firefly of 1770 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm on board HMS INDEFATIGABLE on the aircraft's return from the carrier-borne air strike on the Japanese oil refinery at Pangkalan Brandan, Sumatra. Weather conditions were excellent and the whole weight of bombs and missiles from the Grumman Avengers and Fairey Fireflies fell within the target area. The powerhouse and other important plants, together with oil tanks and buildings, received direct hits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475642077358-HNKK59NI3SJ17ZMFXX1X/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Ranging a Firefly at dawn on morning of the strike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475642000710-JZA0RS8DAF4HG0BZ679W/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Fleet Air Arm aircraft based on HMS INDEFATIGABLE forming up in the air for the strike on a Japanese oil refinery at Pangkalan Brandan, Sumatra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475648553734-IFI7C474FTWV0L8L33KD/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475642271835-FCS2JPMEGW2XJB34QAAZ/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Avengers arriving for their first bombing run after the Fireflies had set the power-house and oil tanks on fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475642574882-4IUAGL83ZP9H1PPXC1RM/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Major V G B Cheesman, MBE, RM, of Chelteham and his observer, Lieut D Wilkey, RNVR, of Bristol, being returned to the INDEFATIGABLE after being picked up by a destroyer when their plane crashed in the sea, as they came in to land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475642402798-G5ARRL6JMUQ2J1GZC4RM/A+27176.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475642385377-ZROCW81R092K3L8I3HM2/A+27171.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475642392949-70ZOUYDUQY310BQ691NI/A+27172.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475642395081-7XC70RGCPP622YFBMETQ/A+27173.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475641944157-QUJHTH6J8M9KNAD8FDDI/A+27095.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475641821686-UCS6TR9XB40UU1J7MR9Y/A+27198.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475641812339-O3NFIOOSXA33KYW94E0X/A+27096.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475641819928-2J1SC5Z9WOISJNQ3Y38B/A+27197.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475641947764-WXXMBY9RD07H3YJM7EBZ/A+27061.jpg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475642144356-BCQDD4XZYJUMHTCT0DZB/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable Deck crews folding the wings of a Firefly on its return from the strike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475659692913-56YX38P6OHL1JOFTLO9U/image-asset.jpeg Operations Councillor to Lentil: HMS Illustrious, Victorious, Indomitable https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm-s4682-somervilles-report-of-proceedings daily 0.75 2016-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1475672083462-SQ6S1HRJLX47STUH8M7S/large+%2822%29.jpg + ADM S4682: Somerville's Report of Proceedings https://www.armouredcarriers.com/air-coordinators-report-operation-meridian-palembang-major-rc-hay-royal-marines daily 0.75 2017-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1483577191206-X0TE5EN08E11W4I6KF09/2016-01-11-22_03_56-dvd____E__---VLC-media-player.jpg + DOCUMENT: Report by Major R.C. Hay, Royal Marines https://www.armouredcarriers.com/operation-meridian-palembang-viceadmiral-vians-report daily 0.75 2019-01-13 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm-26727-hms-indomitable-torpedo-damage-16th-july-1943 daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491716691637-IM07GV2VGLV4CC8FZCN8/2016-02-05-15.07.47.jpg + ADM 267/27: HMS Indomitable Torpedo Damage 16th July 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491717184474-INQ7203XQMIMHQ61CGWX/2016-02-05+15.10.15.jpg + ADM 267/27: HMS Indomitable Torpedo Damage 16th July 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491717282481-UK082GHJ4HX53ZWGNJV4/image-asset.jpeg + ADM 267/27: HMS Indomitable Torpedo Damage 16th July 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491717310531-3CRJWHYXJ3AOEDVIX8TZ/image-asset.jpeg + ADM 267/27: HMS Indomitable Torpedo Damage 16th July 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491717336083-Z8EU22GX0XZ3IOUFV1BK/image-asset.jpeg + ADM 267/27: HMS Indomitable Torpedo Damage 16th July 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491717363614-ZIL8MC30TWARZY4E31QL/image-asset.jpeg + ADM 267/27: HMS Indomitable Torpedo Damage 16th July 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491717392874-TO2UQFJSPS4L5V0S3Z2M/image-asset.jpeg + ADM 267/27: HMS Indomitable Torpedo Damage 16th July 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1491717416512-P14V6TJ9F1770UA63AT5/image-asset.jpeg + ADM 267/27: HMS Indomitable Torpedo Damage 16th July 1943 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/hms-formidable-march-to-may-1941-matapan-tiger daily 0.75 2021-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492936032471-S5S9BBGB0CS4M36IC1P2/IMG_1242.jpg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492762394814-PT0MCJERHW2XF5JNMWUL/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 HMS FORMIDABLE at sea in early 1941. Note the Fulmars on her forward deck and the minimalist aft radar mast which would be replaced by a much more complex structure once she underwent repairs inthe US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492759711933-RHXXXOIESKASO35X4654/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fairey Albacores engaged in a mock torpedo attack against HMS FORMIDABLE off the coast of Mombasa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1493289932827-BX8GAQLAZDCJJA53N54R/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 HMS FORMIDABLE rounds the Cape of Good Hope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492758980210-OT4Y6MMZ84HXKI0EWFDV/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492759337754-2ZAZZJP8JDJ6S4TVI0R8/large_000000.jpg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fairey Albacores sweeping to practice torpedo attack, May 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492759108840-40ANMZQNZZ3TUNSWF7CL/Albacores_Formation.jpg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492759936412-QX8DGQYPFNGLNCIQB5BK/large_000000+%284%29.jpg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Albacores take off from HMS FORMIDABLE during torpedo exercises off Mombasa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492762137821-WM3KME7PG51ODQ0W9U6W/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fairey Albacores and Fulmars were the mainstay of Fleet Air Arm operations in 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492760924575-EBAPV0NAHS62HR1YIDXJ/image-asset.png Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Two Fairey Fulmar Mark Is of No. 803 Squadron from HMS FORMIDABLE, photographed from a third while flying to HMS EAGLE during February 1941. This detachment augmented EAGLE's Fighter Flight in providing cover for a Malta convoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492759180505-Y66TQ7AXNQDOG40WJGMP/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492761212377-DP2MIBTVOT6LZD20A1YO/image-asset.png Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 The first torpedo bomber, - A Fairey Albacore Mark I of No. 826 Squadron, - taking off from HMS FORMIDABLE for the morning strike against the Italian Fleet during the Battle of Matapan, 28 March 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492761034353-8FM4HF77P3UO9NRX82QQ/image-asset.png Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fairey Albacore Mark Is of Nos. 826 and 829 Squadrons ranged on board HMS FORMIDABLE before taking off to attack the Italian Fleet during the Battle of Matapan, 28 March 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492762642668-EK4505299B4P16VA255Q/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492762699731-FARK5LV33OP1Q5BFALRC/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Lt (A) Clifford's torpedo being released, as seen by Mid (A) Wallington, Observer in second Albacore, during the Battle of Matapan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492759545732-JB5BKU7MOOUCQ8BW7SJI/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 An Albacore pulls up over its target after a training torpedo attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492763196511-P8MML8JDE3XREVIR1Q15/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 HMS FORMIDABLE's 4.5in battery opens fire at night. The armoured carrier fired one volley at the Italian ships before seeking to hide in the darkness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1592819459007-ULOVF3RAV7A7GCUXSBT1/large_000000+%281%29.jpg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492761125427-06M5GW04QIBZJVT3QEI8/image-asset.png Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fairey Fulmar Mark Is of No. 803 Squadron on the flight deck of HMS FORMIDABLE, after the Battle of Matapan, March 1941. (Starboard threequarter front views). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492760310512-A3415YIATUVP3I29YA6A/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Albacores ranged on HMS FORMIDABLE's deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1493290395901-EWH3BSBIPOS2OTBPETIZ/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fulmars over the battle fleet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1494252985614-B8S1WCHMIAK4RPG8ZW5F/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1495149793597-W8AXCQUGHKUBJ1MJ7SC1/large_000000.jpg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fleet Air Arm planes patrolling over a convoy, April 1941/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1493288323839-B28UWKPUJRWIJN1MYEE0/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 HMS ARK ROYAL with her long-time companions RENOWN, front, and SHEFFIELD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492761612743-6YYWX7JEWRCLD3TRVI1Z/large_000000+%281%29.jpg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fairey Fulmar fighters patrolling above HMS ARK ROYAL and HMS RENOWN during an attack on a British convoy in the Sicilian Channel, 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492761802736-UUUD8QZ7GQLT3M1QXIR6/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fleet Air Arm Fairey Fulmar aircraft patrolling over a convoy, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1495680150595-E3D2565H9HJ5AVEP6GNJ/image-asset.gif Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492761908375-LQ1TA4NBYEHXV1DOYUX7/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fulmars and Skuas flying off with HMS ARK ROYAL early in 1941. The battlecruiser (rebuilt as a carrier escort) HMS RENOWN is in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492761476919-X0AJ0JNF3KOVHOGDPXY5/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Fairey Fulmar coming in to land aboard HMS ARK ROYAL in 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1493288542247-QQWFXWXO6M66OEHM39BX/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 ARK ROYAL's outline is barely discernable against the spray and smoke, left, as a battleship - probably QUEEN ELIZABETH and a Town-class cruiser help defend her with an umbrella-barrage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1493289449680-8RQ59N50W2WKWS0QEM6Z/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 HMS FORMIDABLE operating Albacores in company with WARSPITE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492762872159-EZN09JXIEYAZJT6YK0KC/A+20382+Formidable.jpg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1493289582738-3GFTBK0J7RJYFOQ3G1VA/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 Bombs fall between HMS VALIANT and an escorting cruiser and destroyer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492763006444-W00PAR2EPDMI93IHTTH0/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1493289675126-OBZBRK0K021LF76P90P6/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 HMS FORMIDABLE in company with WARSPITE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1492762033258-T89NFMNNFK1U5XHJE6UP/image-asset.jpeg Matapan to Tiger: HMS Formidable March to May, 1941 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm-199534-operating-hms-victorious-with-us-pacific-fleet-29-april-6-june-1943 daily 0.75 2018-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1530321580570-ROK6HCQKTCKOYWBNM867/victorious1.jpg Document: Operating HMS Victorious with US Pacific Fleet, 29 APril - 6 June 1943 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm-199838-hms-victorious-report-from-commanding-officer-832-squadron-to-commander-flying daily 0.75 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1530324785624-O1931LPKGXPGXN2IUOTW/HMS+Victorious+Lieutenant+Commander+Cawthorne+RNVR001.jpg ADM 199/838 HMS Victorious Report from Commanding Officer 832 Squadron to Commander (Flying) https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm1991242-operation-pedestal-report-from-commanding-officer-hms-victorious daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1546992886657-Y9Y39B81Y7F63L04YIEI/Victorious_I_Eagle_Convoy.jpg ADM199/1242: Operation Pedestal: Report from Commanding Officer HMS Victorious https://www.armouredcarriers.com/-adm1991242-report-from-commanding-officer-hms-indomitable daily 0.75 2019-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1546999801216-ODOI8IIOTKVTCSNX7126/Indomitable-moveHurri-August42.jpg + AD199/1242: Report from Commanding Officer HMS Indomitable https://www.armouredcarriers.com/opensided-versus-closed-hangars-in-aircraft-carriers daily 0.75 2024-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1547013855762-4SRELH5JV6VVZF48DL2S/skachannie_5284257_17348550.jpg Open-sided versus closed hangars in aircraft carriers https://www.armouredcarriers.com/adm1165789-report-from-commanding-officer-hms-indomitable daily 0.75 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1547015559960-E255GM5PCGZY0HQ4BCDA/2010-04-05+17.15.54.jpg +ADM116/5789 Report from Commanding Officer HMS Indomitable https://www.armouredcarriers.com/-document-2-opensided-versus-closed-hangars daily 0.75 2024-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1547018510374-YO7W9O1HX5B29S5R4X36/50424af6887e91cc35740e7d81e6d9cb.jpg + Document 2: Open-sided versus closed hangars https://www.armouredcarriers.com/comparison-between-aircraft-complement-of-british-and-japanese-aircraft-carriers daily 0.75 2019-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1547357381340-GQFM7ZBC94KB3SJLK3FD/6853323034_54838ac487_h.jpg Comparison between aircraft complement of British and Japanese aircraft carriers https://www.armouredcarriers.com/fairey-firefly daily 0.75 2021-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555305261819-RGYWRERLHC0J87GCX764/fairey-firefly-fighter-02.png Fairey Firefly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301066682-C4WW6MPU9UU8EL8R4QJI/Fairey_Firefly+%283%29.jpg Fairey Firefly A Fairey Firefly Mark I fighter/maritime reconnaissance aircraft in flight. Close-up, port three-quarter front view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301267880-YRJK7JWEPGC79SLLXASM/large+%285%29.jpg Fairey Firefly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555304565495-UH6NGVR89VFUUQX5F6UV/large+%287%29.jpg Fairey Firefly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555304419300-Q7742RUBX16COUNM3ZXA/Fairey_Firefly_taking_off_from_HMS_Illustrious_%28IWM_A_14671%29.jpg Fairey Firefly A prototype Fairey Firefly takes off ahead of a prototype Blackburn Firebrand aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555302300702-M0F7UVNT4E5TEVE5YJPP/2019-04-14+16_46_08-ssp-in-action-200-fairey-firefly.pdf+-+Adobe+Acrobat+Reader+DC.jpg Fairey Firefly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555300700827-TI0JD4LQK43HS79ETPO0/Firey_Firefly.jpg Fairey Firefly The Firefly, two seater long range fighter landing on the flight deck of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, February 8-9, 1943, on the Clyde. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555300831120-JXKY6QGS70HXVWHJ25PX/Fairey_Firefly%281%29.jpg Fairey Firefly A prototype Firefly, two seater long range fighter on the flight deck of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555305325964-QD81R1LZTXX4SJ1BTQ72/large+%282%29.jpg Fairey Firefly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555302191559-DS29SOTIK56YME9Q4IJ2/aee02791bc8790bce41d8b2de28663e8aadc4add0edbeabc377557c83be3bfee.jpg Fairey Firefly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301351775-TLR6QNMT4MZM1UAZF6PG/large+%283%29.jpg Fairey Firefly https://www.armouredcarriers.com/fairey-firefly-variants daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555305449008-F46EJKPCVH2BJXC1ZO4J/2014-05-23+08.23.08.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301800526-4P8EF1ORZ3P42I39UI30/FireflyBW.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555302446444-YMXL8CYWDFMCFR0XE9OO/2019-04-14+16_49_03-ssp-in-action-200-fairey-firefly.pdf+-+Adobe+Acrobat+Reader+DC.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants A prototype Firefly displays its Younman flaps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555302581654-QPX3X0NTJS5VDVXMKLDA/2019-04-14%2B18_38_44-ssp-in-action-200-fairey-firefly.pdf%2B-%2BAdobe%2BAcrobat%2BReader%2BDC.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants A Firefly FR1 with its flaps in take-off position. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301632035-P87UMOEX9SCB7PKWX09Z/Bennett7A.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301744534-VY41H252Y4G2KQGN66X9/Imp_ffly_crash_ps.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555300980282-PK6RL2568YNVPWSWRCKV/Fairy_Firefly%282%29.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301928523-N3BQGOPJ9IZQC0XE8WF3/firefly2.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301903772-NPNGJ8N2DK1VVUJ44M2P/firefly_mk1_2.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555302110177-F0DXS7Y9DIKE73MRG0K4/pretoria-castle-escort-aircraft-carrier-firefly-i-imperial-war-museum-a23561.png Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301529172-S4DP6IV7YIC7G8HLY0HP/1771sqn11.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555302880437-TARN69OCE1N3VD6AYAPZ/2019-04-14+18_35_43-ssp-in-action-200-fairey-firefly.pdf+-+Adobe+Acrobat+Reader+DC.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555303021193-1WSFI4CVH66YCF780N95/01262d50f0096794d7ab6cb6ed2af5771b1015f821.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555301953401-8EBTKEH7TONXL634MZG0/firefly_folding_wing_a.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants A Firefly FR1 has its wings folded aboard an escort carrier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1555303052789-13G37RHBGC6CLCPFMA67/1944_00_00_firefly_off_norway.jpg Fairey Firefly Variants https://www.armouredcarriers.com/uss-midway-design-and-development daily 0.75 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599280361556-W5PVW55XH0N5P2EF2Q2Q/gUQPHWy.jpg USS Midway: Design and development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599282437444-RHH7J3W3CH6LZE0OL4V2/Midway+Images.jpg USS Midway: Design and development https://www.armouredcarriers.com/uss-midway-the-usn-armoured-flight-deck-aircraft-carrier daily 0.75 2025-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599467705606-M2DS3WQ2TOEU6RX488LG/USS_Midway_CVB-41_1946-47.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599546487731-UAV11IOAF54SZVPBFRLX/ZgBez-3HUu_hCZxx1MBbs4mo7Mlo7jc0KG6K-l4590s.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1600832001371-ESPR4OMBMSSAM27S6KDQ/Eh_tJobX0AQnf3z.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined Three generations of US carrier doctrine … USS Saratoga, Enterprise, Hornet, and San Jacinto, in September 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599552611165-2ZSII18XJGAIGYF58869/Lexington1.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599552736485-RA83VJARKN7EUJWCXKD8/Lexington2.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599552804882-E88PDWY18W32LF9343U2/Lexington3.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599552951029-DBJYP84RWRHBMPM8BZUG/Lex-hangardeck.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599568913566-8F9HPFHASBPJGXK1ZI4G/Eg_bJAbWAAAyk5h.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599547150862-SLS5OJYWMKZOYBL7X2GA/pRN_7IdFw6haexPoVedFocoB28RD-nYAfIRCFouAeEA.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599539698950-PFKR1LTOUIVSIT9Y1LZN/Yorktown1-22.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined USS Yorktown CV No. 5 Booklet of General Plans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599540643475-L2R4FE06SRECQ3AYXDMN/Yorktown3-2.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599539912432-6YH8BV3MYT95SRNS2S0N/Yorktown2-2.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599540281566-2ZN54K1UQUBU9D608OSU/Yorktown4-2.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599894750346-F7KC7MH90GQ71P185GH4/1024px-USS_Ranger_%28CV-4%29%2C_USS_Lexington_%28CV-2%29_and_USS_Saratoga_%28CV-3%29_at_anchor_off_Honolulu_on_8_April_1936_%28NNAM.1996.488.001.012%29.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined USS Ranger (front) with Lexington and Saratoga in 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599894935614-UW60AJF2RJ7WERVE6UF7/Corbis-BE030522.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined USS Bunker Hill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599547624507-3U2RS7RYHJ9HT8C78PCR/cover.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599895012829-S60J5ICCMP608RC38FOK/USS_Enterprise_%28CV-6%29_hit_by_kamikaze_1945.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined The forward lift of USS Enterprise is propelled skyward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599528693144-YATEZ6J6CNCPIC40B7W0/Design_plan_Essex.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined Aircraft Carrier Study Scheme “CV9-19”: September 23, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599547978982-I3OWKM5PVWCWAFBLXYTU/sheet040.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined 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It had a 1in armoured flight deck behind the forward lift extending to the aft flight deck overhang. The hangar deck was 3.5in. Dated June 5, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/7d4721c7-db0d-4fc2-b49a-a905b8464b0b/CV-designstudy-schemeC-dec1940.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined - Make it stand out Aircraft Carrier Study Scheme “B”. This design incorporated a 6in gun armament, four in twin turrets ahead and behind the island and the remainder as single open mounts on the four “quarters”. It had a 1.5in armoured flight deck between the lifts, 3.5in on the hangar deck, and 4in over aviation fuel tanks, steering spaces and magazines. Dated December 10, 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/62c60c71-00d6-406d-983c-65444db48655/CV-designstudy-schemeC-dec1940.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined - Make it stand out Aircraft Carrier Design Study Scheme “C”, December 1940. This was an upgraded Essex class with 3.5in on the hangar deck floor and a 1.5in flight deck between the lifts. Armor “caps” of 4in were placed over aviation fuel tanks, the steering compartment and magazines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599528840486-XES05PFY8XQQNAHMYMVV/CVDs511-41.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined Aircraft Carrier Study Scheme “D”: July 12, 1941. This was a partial “armoured box hangar” option inspired by the Illustrious class. The flight deck was 1.5in, with 2.5in on the hangar floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599528580959-FZELAEPX5OKOBW02FDZ0/s511-42.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined Aircraft Carrier Study Scheme “CV-E”: September 22, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599538499089-ZO4YI3MJEVL91C7UOB75/CV6_plate2+%281%29.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599538690207-4VQOQT6DLN71ZHGVU5A5/CV6_plate3+%281%29.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599529941040-9T34M64W4MD5J2M47NHD/IMG_0089.JPG USS Midway: Doctrine determined USS Franklin, CV-13, Samar, 30 Oct, 1944. SUICIDE PLANE CRASH DAMAGE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599549458209-W1FSGND5YY8EQX4HRKHF/Side-armour.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined BuShips side armour study between the Illustrious class (23,000 tons) and the Essex class (27,200 tons). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599528975149-4XM6YVU22CYI1KZZ0H6X/Midway+Images.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined Warship Details: USS Midway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599530101318-KS7I42DH4T6YR39LN7T6/2014-02-11+09.45.31.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599529868304-0ASF9URYG758U6CRSROD/1946ReportPlate2.jpg USS Midway: Doctrine determined USS Franklin, CV-13, Honshu, 19 March 1945. BOMB DAMAGE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1599529967399-84KQO9NZ92O1EYHD373B/IMG_0088.JPG USS Midway: Doctrine determined USS Franklin, CV-13, Honshu, 19 March 1945. BOMB DAMAGE https://www.armouredcarriers.com/were-the-armoured-carriers-worthwhile daily 0.75 2024-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1622015963285-P2H7YYXB1DRI4SA4AW83/%60Lusty_1700.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615162997647-X4K3J8W0EYJ2I8YJLF3W/ONI_Illustrious.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615162621177-D436Q0C4DXVCJFM7UCWZ/IWM_IWM_LD_7439-001.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? HMS ILLUSTRIOUS under Stuka dive-bomber attack, January 1941. Painting by John Alan Hamilton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/0cb2a299-bd5a-4177-82ff-9255a10a2109/1297811813.0.x.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615162918304-0NE4FKK6A84VADOISUG9/image-asset.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615163107867-3KCRRALGFGSVXQ2XVU3I/Fireball.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? HMS FORMIDABLE vanishes behind a fireball moments after a kamikaze detonated on her flight deck in May, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615163154001-909LVEFYRHCT8I4B7FNY/Side-armour.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? Click on the above image for an expanded view. This is a Norfolk Navy Yard comparison drawing of the side armour arrangements of the treaty-era HMS Illustrious (1940) and a post-treaty Essex (1943). Picture courtesy 'Researcher at Large' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615162755759-6KTFNMGN1YBYL2Q96U3F/Stats1.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615162773838-Z9SUMZPN24HU9JVOVIID/Stats2.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615162788433-C92R60QIZ6T9JDPY6AUU/Stats3.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? Note: By World War II, USS Langley was an aircraft ferry and HMS Argus was a training/ferry/escort carrier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615163279514-1TK371OUP1EFCDDDE3B3/image-asset.png Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? 'No Place to Land': Corsairs wearing the 'Q' mark of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS fly over HMS FORMIDABLE as she burns after a kamikaze struck her armoured flight deck abreast the island. (This isn't possible unless these were 'spares' from Illustrious waiting to be repainted as she had left the BPF when Formidable joined). Painting by Michael Turner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615163431383-3P2EWRF8M8215U9GN5YR/Lusty_Trials.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615163679703-C05WJEY6MV3Y0MH68YNB/wave.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? One of the Implacable sub-class punches through a swell in 1945 - identifiable by the conformal recesses holding the 4.5in turrets on the side of the flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615163719299-2ECFE7DUTG07IIK4ZWLQ/image-asset.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? The fleet support auxiliary carrier, HMS Unicorn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615163769183-DWVZ6KISM9B290NLP5ND/image-asset+%281%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615163925835-OJVL7ZK952U48OPP9H63/bunkerhillfire.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? The explosion and fire aboard USS Bunker Hill after a kamikaze struck the centre of the flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615163950802-NEA588OYN6RAQCD0QFQH/formidablefire.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? The explosion and fire aboard HMS Formidable after a kamikaze struck the centre of the flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164020247-765LAINHDXM24J34IENA/FormidableDent.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? Damage to HMS Formidable's deck after the impact of a 550lb-bomb-carrying Kamikaze amidships. The exploding bomb and burning fuel killed nine and put the carrier out of action for six hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164062726-HJPYZTJQXP5ZWHFU3L0X/BunkerHillHole.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? Damage to USS Bunker Hill's deck after the impact of a 550lb-bomb-carrying Kamikaze amidships. The exploding bomb and burning fuel killed 389 and put the carrier out of action for four months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164173455-LGWA7397ISN3BQAZCCM2/LustyDamage.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164263863-5JTLFN50RYVP1PGQRTQO/image-asset.png Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164344434-U2IEJ227G0TMVJOQA9RH/WWIINavalDamage6-Franklin.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164435607-UVCMV1VTBCESEIDVAHT7/image-asset.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164498079-HSOT6O0L21H6QBYRCPDG/image-asset+%281%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164567189-YO1RTKLJWALIZ7EXI5AO/FormidKami.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164649539-PXQQSPEFHCW97BON5TGJ/Indom_Fire.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164727161-O5VOV1PTSAVIPP2PRHYC/Indom_Fire.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164790687-JRA9EDG89VMAG80MEQLX/Vic_Rebuild.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164883396-VFULIYD38FQSRHL1E6U7/Implac_Hangar.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615164952035-K8FI37GS2E2XDSJZKTFS/image-asset.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615165020774-X9O5E6GYX2CY9XSV2UJS/ImplacPostwar.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615165070924-JYHAKACHRXVDYIDULLKO/USS_Pittsburgh_02.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? USS Pittsburgh lost her bow in a typhoon in June 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615165216908-3KBBYTEA5R38SV6V81VA/Midway_Gale.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1719045695235-UHRWU8T2354AQVSU0CUI/Page1.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1721546294660-7EA9WQRNNOYSHYYMZ0ME/page2.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615165422925-Y0YUZR68EL3BZAZCHHRR/Franklin_CIC.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615165474540-I22DX8AKZFRMBMMGOYJ5/BunkerBurn.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615165585899-WLOTSDL368E7EMMYRSQC/Idef_Kami.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? 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Indomitable's demolished rear flight deck after Operation Pedestal. The Spitfires on the deck were to be flown off before the carrier returned to the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615167814414-OQPTNSWQJVKU4LEAD5QP/Indom_Report.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615167861181-15H89CL06NC4ZPCW7BY1/image-asset.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615167900128-F03IFI8T90W9YAADAPS9/image-asset+%281%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615167968371-N1C9LWWGRM0HFIZT3002/image-asset+%282%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168009045-046MCPHJ6D1W62ZJXZE7/image-asset+%283%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168077886-UU7OPQTPEFTX8YNJNZKN/image-asset+%284%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? The increased extent of damage to the volatile hangar by deck hits on unarmoured carriers is demonstrated by this image of USS Franlkin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168119527-R73437AAFLCDDEADXPH4/image-asset+%285%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168188040-YBB7U4CTWIQJ6L2HYN3I/image-asset+%286%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168229062-CIL2F2LCR6TOGQYTNMLV/image-asset+%287%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168289821-ZWPAB7DRXMZ2YEYV7RCX/image-asset+%288%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168346473-Y7RJPH1B8Q6VFW13WBKI/image-asset.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? USS Yorktown, disabled by bombs and the ensuing fires was later torpedoed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168378915-E06JRYHJ2VK47ZRGPC22/image-asset+%281%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? The burning oil refineries at Palembang, successfully attacked by an FAA strike force from four armoured carriers, seriously curtailed Japan's oil production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168438162-UVPWU2BHF3MZ9SK6ST2M/image-asset+%282%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? Plumes from Japanese gunfire erupt around USS Gambier Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168493494-ZFGLROO3VY1I6B0NKDFW/image-asset+%283%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? HMS Glorious burns under the guns of Scharnhorst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168530653-8DAZLWFLE3D6UIN7XAZ4/image-asset+%284%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? HMS Implacable with US carriers of Task Force 38. Admiral Halsey insisted the armoured carriers operate between his own ships and Japan because of the durability they had displayed off Sakishima Gunto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168579953-4QZWK3VIYCU5XXOZLOEE/image-asset+%285%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168716004-9R96Y16KRPY4CPH5ITFT/image-asset+%286%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? Smoking splinters burn on a US carrier's timber flight deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168760659-MIFVKPXNI5S5NPU5ACPR/image-asset+%287%29.jpeg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? A flight of FAA Avengers flying over Task Force 57, the British Pacific Fleet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168832748-SZJPP6O9IT0QUQ491HCY/image-asset.png Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168881585-X96TFZJ5U5N0PG2FIUCZ/2015-04-17%2B10_43_37-SUMMARY%2BOF%2BWAR%2BDAMAGE%2B-%2BU.S.%2BBattleships%2C%2BCarriers%2C%2BCruisers%2C%2BDestroyer%2Band%2BDest.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168891479-JO9YIL6TRRL9CHOMO0BH/2015-04-17%2B10_43_54-SUMMARY%2BOF%2BWAR%2BDAMAGE%2B-%2BU.S.%2BBattleships%2C%2BCarriers%2C%2BCruisers%2C%2BDestroyer%2Band%2BDest.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1615168902390-18NCTAZHK9RF8MQK5VNH/2015-04-17%2B10_44_11-SUMMARY%2BOF%2BWAR%2BDAMAGE%2B-%2BU.S.%2BBattleships%2C%2BCarriers%2C%2BCruisers%2C%2BDestroyer%2Band%2BDest.jpg Were the armoured carriers worthwhile? 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Photographed from USS Wichita (CA-45) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630726217622-6I8P44SZC6CX3GQIQNC3/B6Ntorp_USSEssex.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Gunners aboard USS Essex engage a B6N torpedo bomber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630724984392-YEDH3L2AQUEXJEOC2YQ9/2021-09-04+12_39_04-A+pitch+to+revisit+the+HMS+Formidable%2C+May+4%2C+1945+Kamikaze+attack+-+armouredcar.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630725244597-TY5GUHCXOW3LAGQ9YPUV/Diagram.png Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630726024850-R7IL6GUXXIJ4PC5EN0EU/Ulithi_December44.jfif Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out US forces assemble at Ulithi, prior to the Okinawa campaign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630716816353-9WDPK6TUAT7OA6030E37/SRH-289+Mobile+Radio+Intelligence+-+RN+sigint+observers+with+USN+Mobile+radio+teams+Iwo+Jima.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630716831972-84Z1Z7DOGE5O7MIC0DEY/SRH-289+Mobile+Radio+Intelligence+-+RN+sigint+observers+with+USN+Mobile+radio+teams+during+Iceberg.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630717291850-5IUHDH4J94FQZ01CRVKJ/image+%281%29.png Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out This is a map with Ryukyus air bases is adapted from Robin Reilly's Kamikaze Attacks of WW2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630717265410-C5847QNDEAYWAZ0GFAIH/IJ+Navy+Radar+Stations+okinawa+campaign.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out This is a modern map with the locations of all the IJN radar during and after the Okinawa Campaign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630717396086-VASJMOUFGATO4QRP5H98/IJA+32nd+Army+Radar+units+at+Okinawa.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out This is a map of the IJA radars in the Ryukyus from Japanese archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630717467829-83YOB8Y7HUOW3LEHKWOI/Spreadsheet.png Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out CLICK TO EXPAND: This is a photo capture of my Ryukyus radar site spreadsheet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630726489521-EOG47C52LWLE9RM5QBTQ/018e21369635d91fa0023ab76eddd27caaa1124989.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldivers of Bombing Squadron 83 (VB-83) with other aircraft of Air Group 83 on the USS ESSEX (CV-9) during operations off Okinawa. The burning carrier is USS BUNKER HILL (CV-17), which suffered two kamikaze hits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630717633707-34L0KLG4WTS07NA9ZT6A/Type+11K.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630732572458-IHXFON2YYFAG9AS2181D/8bec670332aa9305b2d726f86c9c0793.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630728489242-5RIJ6VJ7SG9NHAUDFFN2/5HynMyq.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out A D4Y Suisei dive-bomber about to enter the flash of a proximity-fused AA round fired by his intended target, the USS St. George. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630739880246-MG1I37L0X1UCB33JJICV/Minoru_Ota.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Ota Minoru https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630740162059-QGJ5YUQGURAFY8QYHXQH/Former_Japanese_Naval_Underground_Headquaters_Okinawa06s5s3104.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out The Commander's Room of the underground Naval Headquarters on Okinawa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630726837649-P3YM0TQH092HVPCZTG40/cu7vuf9o83p61.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out The explosion of a Japanese kamikaze aircraft hit by USN anti-aircraft fire, May 4, 1945. USS Bennington (CV-20) is photo center and was taken from USS Hornet (CV-12) by Roy Huffngton off Okinawa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630717995075-PEI4DG9UUKH6TO7RUSWU/image+%282%29.png Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630727295475-6YT59R53HLDJEU80QZW9/ujqu3j8wpxt21.png Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Unidentified destroyer on radar picket duty off Okinawa with a sky full of AA and a burning kamikaze, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630718108028-BCUV8U0W1UE2HKF7O1KK/SRH-254++USA+Intelligence+Losses+%282%29.JPG Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630718162580-SUQ8RO207M0NXZCGWGEY/SRH-254++USA+Intelligence+Losses+%281%29.JPG Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630726324663-FG0PVPQKJWVUA8Y271QT/grum797F6F-3carrierunderattacktakeo.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Escorts engage a low-flying kamikaze during flight operations off Okinawa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630727416789-HMU9RYBXIIJRXKF0FE74/q83sexcwvr741.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) burning after a kamikaze hit during The Battle of Okinawa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630726934492-I3YG6SGUPCNF9B62214K/ZdqVzKy.jpeg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) aircraft wreckage on the flight deck, after most fires were out following hits by two Kamikazes off Okinawa, 11 May 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630733298686-O79A80R40FMXYEI06JHI/unnamed.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out USS Hancock burns after being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa, April 7, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630719089355-4N5029M48B7LPA8Z5VO8/JSS+Iceberg+Cover+Sheet.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630727012952-5ZS62R731HLGMOWXY9PJ/w3e5jlztevyz.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out USS Intrepid (CV-11) smoking and listing after being struck by a Japanese special attack aircraft -- kamikaze -- off Okinawa, 16 April 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630727188801-QBJWIAZSUGQT5WZPHSV9/UosxE1SW_35rrwXg7ULduPlZSFovR0LRwuflBhKlqRE.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Kamikaze aircraft hits the water off the USS ENTERPRISE's (CV-6) starboard quarter, during operations off Okinawa, 11 April 1945. Photographed from USS BUNKER HILL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630733412523-OE7M5VU058DJ5YV920FZ/aa44fa9c49fb3787b5d859d34c3758b9.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) afire after being hit by two Kamikazes off Okinawa, 11 May 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630733516089-JVKSB5S0OQZNDA1BXHPE/tumblr_osv7mdXIEm1sfdr4zo1_1280.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out USS Intrepid burning after kamikaze attack, off Okinawa, Japan, 16 Apr 1945; a Fletcher-class destroyer in foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630727108153-FJZT8MAHRFHBEC0DHC8D/xR8nfqiA3fTQhhpWxxsVUskkOYIs5PA6ip-TPIZelVs.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out An Iowa-class battleship steaming full ahead while putting up a wall of anti-aircraft fire off Okinawa, April 1945. The white splash in the center of the photo is a kamikaze impact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1630733631326-B2TPEPLV23V1EFJEI56M/W6TLLJFRBFD5PEPOZSDIQHMYXQ.jpg Analysis: Chaos, Kamikaze Pathfinders & Okinawa - Make it stand out Japanese Kamikazes attack the American fleet, Okinawa, 1945 https://www.armouredcarriers.com/-german-document daily 0.75 2023-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1696664533328-UDB2279I3BHEK5WL27W2/5cd86b60813c90cbc349776b0eefba7f4d063c2e.jpg + X Fliegerkorps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/3d2c6e1d-84d8-4b2b-b93a-a7ea05706d35/German_Records_7.jpg + X Fliegerkorps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/7ef082b0-6a47-479f-bb0a-ad2fa0127962/German_Records_8.jpg + X Fliegerkorps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/acc145c4-11c3-46d8-96f0-e69d77929d41/Lage_3.jpg + X Fliegerkorps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/aa2bd414-e116-4dc4-90ec-1bfd227654fc/Lage_4.jpg + X Fliegerkorps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/87701b06-735c-4c7c-bf56-70f31fe1f796/Lage_5.jpg + X Fliegerkorps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/a5ba6d3c-d9f0-44da-a72e-b3376304a235/Lage_6.jpg + X Fliegerkorps - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/usn-fighter-direction-liaison-officers-report-british-pacific-fleet daily 0.75 2024-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1705445715568-HWPKYOL1OZKDNU2LD56C/Album+pages+%281%29.jpg ARC ID 3799195: USN Fighter Direction Liaison Officer's Report https://www.armouredcarriers.com/andrew-green-on-armoured-carrier-design-intent daily 0.75 2024-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1719721689233-17U3TLLOZ5RQO8U99DPZ/Nov44_Phiolippines_Hangar.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/aeb316bc-dc15-407d-a03f-d5e31877dd69/Eh_tJobX0AQnf3z.jfif Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out USS Saratoga (Laid down 1920), USS Enterprise (Laid down 1934), USS Hornet II (Laid down 1942). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/8a3d1b62-8aef-4da0-9d3e-d3a99f0ef006/LINKED_CALLtoACTION.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/8ddca73d-9b53-4180-b820-7956259afefc/ship_yorktown36.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out USS Yorktown at Naval Air Station San Diego, California, in June 1940. Note the air group of F3F-2/3 “Flying Barrels”, TBD-1 “Devastator”, SBC-3 “Helldiver”, SB2 “Vindicator” and Grumman “Goose” flying boats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/356dbd51-e930-4d0b-88b9-75684c1cb6b4/2024-12-22+13_47_18-Window.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out HMS Glorious, sunk by German battlecruisers while operating - without escort - in the North Sea, was a core component in the pre-war blockade of Italy and Royal Navy experiments into sustained air operations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/4646bb5e-955d-4cfb-ba55-4a136ad3a422/IMG_20200303_180706.thumb.jpg.cb299c41574c44c1e69d96bdd97a861f.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/bb259d7d-8115-496a-a56a-c99c4ec8209f/cvb43194802142RL.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out The “Battle Carrier” USS Coral Sea displays her post-war complement of aircraft, including Corsairs and Skyraiders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/f10ed8e5-b18d-4757-b33b-ae4834e54ad7/LINKED_CALLtoACTION2.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/6bfdf984-06b0-4c71-a1ba-3d053c48138f/cvb4319471210RL.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out USS Coral Sea. The Midway class of Battle Carrier had armour on the flight deck extending between the two lifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/fd5dca93-42a1-4451-9401-638134b59266/LINKED_CALLtoACTION3.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/fa868bba-f679-4b95-aaa3-634b6b491554/1945_03_20_40mm-Bofors-USS-Astoria-and_fire-CV-6_jpg.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/85446860-dd2a-4f40-941e-0d32ceb2d7fa/enterprise-bomb-explosion.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/4d9696bd-e979-4cc7-b4ae-2a8f948ba933/IMG_0417.JPG Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out A distorted but significant picture showing the hole in HMS Illustrious’ hangar deck shortly after a 2200lb bomb detonated inside the hangar after penetrating the 4.5in armoured flight deck in January, 1941. Foam from the firefighting efforts can be seen at the top of the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/8249407b-ee0f-4ed9-bf4c-c5ef157abd45/ETgeaImWAAIUFOO.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Damage to USS Franklin’s hangar deck following the 550lb bomb hit in 1945 off mainland Japan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/562943d8-1116-4a33-8221-db8bb3c4fc40/FormidMay4.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Action Damage Report: The Commanding Officer, HMS Formidable, May 4 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/bda5cadd-de5a-4cfc-bfdd-a23fde18b5d1/Franklin_damage_45.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Damage to one section of USS Franklin’s flight deck, gallery deck and hangar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/2165d70f-d1a3-4922-9569-26dba78be07a/dent.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out The damage to HMS Formidable’s flight deck after the May 4, 1945, kamikaze attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/6e0f4255-9d28-4fbe-81ea-cc831b927765/indefat.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Action Damage Report: The Commanding Officer, HMS Indefatigable, 9th April 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/bbed2ce2-de2d-4482-9bbe-8cb63f134414/Deckhit_wide.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Smoke and steam curls from the 19-21inch (accounts vary) penetration in HMS Illustrious’ deck. The mangled metal in front of the vent are most likely wing debris from a downed Ju87 Stuka, or a Fulmar that was possibly on the lowered aft lift when it was first hit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/1976f9b8-9e2f-427b-8f14-5ae368929ca4/image-asset+%284%29.jpeg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/ad9fbdca-395c-4cd6-8fba-2ecf0feb848f/Bomb-penetration-chart.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/23ff26d9-378a-4a11-b9fd-29529de76f96/image-asset.gif Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out A Stuka pulls out after an attack run on HMS Illustrious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/f69f41e3-07fb-4ee0-8da5-85576be04413/image-asset.jpeg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Click to examine this USN assessment of bomb hits to HMS Illustrious, compiled during her repairs in Norfolk Naval Yards. The imputed trajectory of the 2200lb bomb that penetrated the deck armor (No. 6) is different to that supplied to the Royal Navy in the final assessment (click on the image below) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/e0a45df9-71af-4bb9-9887-1fefa5974e96/ADM_267_83_038.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/dad2435b-c02d-4a0c-8692-8aea617612bd/ju88esau.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out XFliegerkorps records state the attack on HMS Illustrious and the Excess operation involved Ju88, Ju87 and He111 squadrons escorted by Me110s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/c0617a85-7ad0-4bba-83fd-c95ef90bff29/LINKED_CALLtoACTION.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/36963469-ece4-4dc7-ab86-bbd46b9d99e8/bombsize.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/594dea63-a1c2-455b-a609-5e8304139258/1597%2841%29.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out A damage assessment photograph of the distorted 4.5in armor after being penetrated by a 2200lb bomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/a013e6ed-394a-40f5-86b7-d853e9ee3f61/ADM_Composite.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out A composite image showing the damage to HMS Formidable’s bow, sustained May 26, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/8cc589ee-64d8-4ef3-88d2-f610f5127ae4/image-asset+%285%29.jpeg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/86307bb6-ef02-44e9-882c-7b4f0e67c2d7/4715076ADM_267_84_IMG_0106.JPG Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/97f12974-6147-476c-b406-fe266fcc501c/image-asset+%286%29.jpeg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/fb890d24-0f4d-445a-9442-d6146f51a7d1/Jean_Bart_80-G-31605.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/7589bb2e-3dc2-429e-82b9-fa6d3849cdf1/EiCsWOgWkAE8FL0.jfif Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out USS Ticonderoga ferrying aircraft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/0a886b9b-ba09-4161-84ed-a573e0d4ac16/E-DhG4AVgAEmK0l.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out American Aircraft Carrier, By Jim Ray: A detailed cross-section of a typical modern flat-top. Produced with the cooperation of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for the Air and the Bureau of Ships- US Navy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/d8aa12c0-8f77-4ab1-a9b3-b4e60827c476/EXferNSX0AQnnTl.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out HMS Implacable immediately postwar (her ship identification letter “F” an be seen on the bow). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/c7b49cdb-bb39-488f-bede-0f76cbde46b4/Side-armour.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out BuShips side armour study between the Illustrious class (Laid down 1937, 23,000 tons) and the Essex class (Laid down 1941, 27,200 tons). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/61c80397-4634-4f03-90ea-0a7b14270d83/CFpSjApXIAAgIiB.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/d1505eff-b8bf-415e-bcb1-47f46687e83c/k5yu53ewikh51.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out The Third Fleet off Tokyo Bay, August 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/c08ee472-d3dc-451a-8554-51518020ef9d/USS+Franklin.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/5ec189db-2db1-42e1-9d7a-0b61bd46ef29/FDg-wEcXMAgDscf.jfif Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/edfd90d8-5772-48fd-8610-0f01823a5f03/uss_randolph_cv-15_under_repair.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out USS Randolph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/8d982a93-49ef-49a9-918d-237fa61da63a/Essex+11April45.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out USS Essex, April 11, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/3f8d9949-3b46-433b-844b-49b7e42a0539/3902697ADM_267_87_IMG_0009+%282%29.JPG Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out Rapid-set concrete and the application of block-and-tackle to straighten the crash barrier braces restored HMS Formidable’s flight deck to operation about six and a half hours after the attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/df1ac6a8-5809-42f8-95cc-013bbdcebef3/Nov44_Philippines.jpg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out USS Intrepid, November, 1944. Two kamikaze attacks killed 69 crew. She returned to Pearl Harbor for repairs before returning to action in early 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531fdb48e4b0e8fbe6259952/832d3475-3aae-42e8-ae7d-14d711e4f89c/image-asset.jpeg Andrew Green on armoured carrier design intent - Make it stand out To comment on any of the points raised on this page, please follow the link to the discussion page by clicking on the above image.