WW2 Photo WWII British HMS Formidable Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier 1941 /7118

Description

HMS Formidable Aircraft Carrier
This is a nice
reproduction of an original WWII photograph showing HMS Formidable (67) of the British Royal Navy in 1941.
Size of photo is about 5" x 5".
HMS
Formidable
was an
Illustrious
-class
aircraft carrier
ordered for the
Royal Navy
before the Second World War. After being completed in late 1940, she was briefly assigned to the
Home Fleet
before being transferred to the
Mediterranean Fleet
as a replacement for her crippled
sister ship
Illustrious
.
Formidable
's aircraft played a key role in the
Battle of Cape Matapan
in early 1941, and they subsequently provided cover for Allied ships and attacked
Axis forces
until their carrier was badly damaged by German
dive bombers
in May.
Assigned to the
Eastern Fleet
in the Indian Ocean in early 1942,
Formidable
covered
the invasion of Diego Suarez
in
Vichy
Madagascar
in mid-1942 against the possibility of a
sortie
by the Japanese into the Indian Ocean.
Formidable
returned home for a brief refit before participating in
Operation
Torch
, the invasion of
French North Africa
in November. She remained in the Mediterranean and covered the
invasions of Sicily
and
mainland Italy
in 1943 before beginning a lengthy refit.
Formidable
made several attacks on the
German battleship
Tirpitz
in Norway in mid-1944 as part of the Home Fleet. She was subsequently assigned to the
British Pacific Fleet
(BPF) in 1945 where she played a supporting role during the
Battle of Okinawa
and later attacked targets in the
Japanese Home Islands
. The ship was used to repatriate liberated Allied
prisoners of war
and soldiers after the
Japanese surrender
and then ferried British personnel across the globe through 1946. She was placed in
reserve
the following year and sold for
scrap
in 1953.
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