The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Brisbane, Qld. c. 1945. Supermarine Seafire Mk.III aircraft, with wings folded, on the deck of British escort carrier HMS Slinger.
As part of the immense British Pacific Fleet, HMS Slinger was in Brisbane River preparing to leave for Manus Island.
The distinctive enlarged roundel with horizontal bars added onto the aircraft were to aid with recognition for US forces that served alongside the British Pacific Fleet (BPF). Note that a pair of Seafires along the port (left) edge of the deck and on the far right of the image have not had their enlarged and modified BPF roundel applied but retain their smaller non-BPF RAF roundels.
(Original print housed in AWM archive store).
Brisbane, QLD, circa 1945. A mixture of British Fleet Air Arm (FAA) aircraft, including Supermarine Seafires, F6F Hellcats, Fairey Barracudas, F4U Corsairs, Fairey Fireflies and Grumman Avengers with
British escort aircrafr carrier HMS Slinger (26) at sea. Two supermarine seafire fighter aircraft are ranged aft. (ORIGINAL PRINT HOUSED IN AWM ARCHIVE STORE)
Depicts the flight deck of HMS Striker with twin Oerlikon guns, and Supermarine Seafire aircraft. Striker was one of several escort carriers (small aircraft carrier - up to 12 aircraft) attached to Br
Pacific Ocean. 1945. Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Avengers, Seafires and Fireflies line up on the deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Implacable and warm up their engines before taking off. Other units of th
AT SEA. 1943. A RANGE OF GRUMMAN F4F MARTLET FIGHTER AIRCRAFT WARM UP ON THE FLIGHT DECK OF HMS FORMIDABLE WHILE GROUND CREW STAND BY FOR THE RELEASE OF THE AIRCRAFT. ON THE LEFT ARE TWO SUPERMARINE S
SUPERMARINE SEAFIRE MK IIC FIGHTER AIRCRAFT 6G (MD131?) OF NO 885 SQUADRON, FLEET AIR ARM, ON THE CATAPULT OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS FORMIDABLE. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION).
