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Photograph P00614.002 Second World War, 1939-1945INDIAN OCEAN. 1944. ON BOARD THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS ILLUSTRIOUS SHOWING CRASHED AIRCRAFT, A GRUMMAN AVENGER, HANGING PRECARIOUSLY OVER THE SIDE. (DONOR K. HENVILLE)

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UNITED KINGDOM, 1943. ON BOARD THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS ILLUSTRIOUS SHOWING THE WRECKAGE OF A CRASHED VOUGHT CORSAIR AIRCRAFT ON DECK. (DONOR K HENVILLE)
INDIAN OCEAN. 1944. ON BOARD THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS ILLUSTRIOUS SHOWING CRASHED AIRCRAFT, A GRUMMAN AVENGER, HANGING PRECARIOUSLY OVER THE SIDE. (DONOR K. HENVILLE)

SYDNEY, NSW. 1945. FIRST SHIP TO ENTER SYDNEY'S NEW DRY DOCK, THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. (DONOR K. HENVILLE)

SAKISHIMA GUNTO ISLANDS, 1945. GRUMMAN AVENGER TAKING OFF FROM BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS ILLUSTRIOUS FOR OPERATIONS IN THE PACIFIC. 200 MILES EAST OF TAIWAN. (DONOR K. HENVILLE)

PACIFIC OCEAN. 1944. SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER OF SOUTH EAST ASIA, ADMIRAL LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, SPEAKING TO THE SHIP'S COMPANY ABOARD THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS ILLUSTRIOUS PRIOR TO PACIFIC SE

SAKISHIMA GUNTO ISLANDS, 1945-04-06. BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIERS HMS ILLUSTRIOUS HAS A NEAR MISS AS JAPANESE KAMIKAZE AIRCRAFT ATTACK. 200 MILES EAST OF TAIWAN. (DONOR K. HENVILLE)

Movietone newsreel item on the visit to Australia of the British Pacific Fleet just prior to action in the Okinawa campaign. Features the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and the battleship HMS King