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C.1942. AERIAL BOW VIEW OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS INDOMITABLE. SHE IS LANDING ON ALBACORE BOMBERS, ELEVEN OF WHICH ARE SPOTTED FORWARD WITH THEIR WINGS FOLDED WHILE A TWELFTH, HAVING JUST LANDED, IS COMING OFF THE ARRESTOR WIRES AND BEING DIRECTED FORWARD. A SEAFIRE FIGHTER WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE A DAMAGED UNDERCARRIAGE HAS BEEN PUSHED OUT ONTO AN OUTRIGGER. THE LARGE CYLINDER ON THE FOREMAST HOUSES A TYPE 72 HOMING BEACON. A TYPE 273 RADAR LANTERN IS FITTED ON THE FRONT OF THE ISLAND. TWO EIGHT-BARRELLED 2 POUNDER AA MOUNTINGS ARE SITED FORWARD OF IT. NOTE THE SINGLE 20 MM OERLIKON AA GUN IN THE SPONSON PROTRUDING FROM UNDER THE ROUND DOWN. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)
C.1942. AERIAL PORT BOW VIEW OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. NOTE THE TYPE 281 RADAR AERIALS AT THE HEAD OF THE FOREMAST AND MAINMAST. THE 281 AERIAL ON THE FOREMAST IS SURMOUNTED BY A TYPE 2
BOW VIEW OF THE LIGHT FLEET AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS OCEAN. THE HIGHWEST AERIAL IS A YE AIRCRAFT HOMING BEACON. BELOW IT IS A TYPE 281B AIR SEARCH RADAR. A TYPE 277 HEIGHT FINDING RADAR IS SITED ON THE BR
VIEW OF THE ISLAND OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS GLORY. A TYPE 279B AIR SEARCH RADAR AERIAL IS FITTED AT THE MASTHEAD WITH A YE AIRCRAFT HOMING BEACON BEHIND IT. A TYPE 277 HEIGHT FINDING RADAR IS MOUNT
FREMANTLE, WA. C.1945. DETAIL VIEW OF THE STARBOARD SIDE AMISHIPS OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS INDOMITABLE WITH THE SHIP'S COMPANY OVERLOOKING A WELCOMING CROWD ON THE WHARF. IN THE TOP LEFT OF THE PHO
SYDNEY, NSW. C.1945. AERIAL PORT BOW VIEW OF THE LIGHT FLEET CARRIER HMS GLORY. BOTH LIFTS ARE IN THE DOWN POSITION. NOTE THE TYPE 279B RADAR AERIAL AND THE YE AIRCRAFT HOMING BEACON AT THE MASTHEAD.
C.1943. OVERHEAD VIEW OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS FORMIDABLE. SHOWN CLEARLY IS HER ARMAMENT DISPOSITION, WITH THE SIXTEEN 4.5 INCH MARK I OR MARK III GUNS IN EIGHT MARK II BD MOUNTINGS, TWO IN EACH QU
