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• A Black Aeroplane on a Red Deck : Aircraft massed on the Flight Deck of "HMS Formidable"

  (art) Made by: Rosoman, Leonard Henry (RA)

  image: several Corsair fighter aircraft and one Avenger, all with folded wings, stand on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Only the horizon is visible in the background.

• 'Angry Aeroplanes': Two Avengers on the Flight Deck of "HMS Formidable"

  (art) Made by: Rosoman, Leonard Henry (RA)

  image: Two dark-coloured machines with circular shaped wings and their landing wheels down, set against a mottled terracotta coloured background.

• KAMIKAZE

  part of "FUKUI SHIZUO (LT CDR)" (photographs)

  Naval Weapons: The experimental launching of a Japanese KAITEN torpedo from the quarter-deck of the cruiser KITAKAMI on 26 February 1945 near Kare. The KAITEN was a suicide weapon developed from the body of a standard torpedo.

• THE BRITISH PACIFIC FLEET 1944-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  HMCS UGANDA, a cruiser transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944 and the only RCN ship to take an active part against the Japanese while serving with the British Pacific Fleet.

• HMS Hunter: The Sick Bay

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay 1945

  image: the interior of the sick bay aboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hunter. Several men lie in bunk beds suspended from the walls of the cabin by metal chains, with one man lying in a metal framed bed in the centre of the cabin. Another...

• Shell-handling Room : 'A' Gun Turret, "HMS Anson"

  (art) Made by: Morris, James 1945

  image: a view inside a gun turret with a sailor in the foreground, next to two large, loaded shells. A sailor in the background appears to be adjusting the settings of some of the machinery.

• HMS Argonaut : Ratings cleaning torpedo tubes

  (art) Made by: Morris, James

  image: four bare-chested sailors clean the torpedo tubes on board a ship. There is a second large ship and a faint coastline to be seen in the background.

• The Engine Room : "HMS Colossus" 1945

  (art) Made by: Morris, James 1945

  image: two sailors man the engine room of HMS Colossus.

• BRITAIN'S NUCLEAR TEST PROGRAMME: OPERATION GRAPPLE

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  The mushroom cloud generated during Britain's second hydrogen bomb test as seen from a Royal Navy ship of the Operation GRAPPLE Squadron on 31 May 1957. The weapon was dropped high over Malden Island in the Central Pacific by a Royal Air Force Valiant...

• BRITAIN'S NUCLEAR TEST PROGRAMME: OPERATION GRAPPLE

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer

  The mushroom cloud generated during Britain's first hydrogen bomb test as seen from an aircraft flying above the local natural cloud on 15 May 1957. The weapon was dropped high over Malden Island in the Central Pacific by a Royal Air Force Valiant...