Image: HMS Formidable (67) on fire 1945
Description: The aircraft carrier HMS Formidable (R67) on fire after being struck by a Kamikaze off Sakishima Gunto. Formidable was hit at 1130 hrs, the kamikaze making a massive dent about 3 m long, 0.6 m wide and deep in the armoured flight deck. A large steel splinter speared down through the hangar deck and the centre boiler-room, where it ruptured a steam line, and came to rest in a fuel tank, starting a major fire in the aircraft park. Eight crew members were killed and forty-seven were wounded. One Vought Corsair and ten Grumman Avengers were destroyed.
Title: HMS Formidable (67) on fire 1945
Credit: This is photograph A 29717 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author: Royal Navy official photographer aboard HMS Victorious (R38)
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