Tovey, Ronald Robert (Oral history)

British seaman served as radar operator aboard HMS Formidable, 1st Aircraft Carrier Sqdn, British Pacific Fleet in Pacific, 3/1945-8/1945

REEL 1 Recollections of operations as radar operator aboard HMS Formidable, 1st Aircraft Carrier Sqdn, British Pacific Fleet in Pacific, 3/1945-8/1945: reaction to joining British Pacific Fleet, 3/1945; first Kamikaze attack on aircraft carrier, 4/5/1945; second kamikaze hit on ship, 9/5/1945; difference between flight decks of British and American carriers; VE Day celebrations, 8/5/1945; question of British Pacific Fleet being forgotten; attitude towards Kamikaze attacks; belief that there would be more Kamikaze attacks on nearing Japan; nature of Kamikaze attacks; work in flight direction room; further details of first Kamikaze attack on aircraft carrier,4/5/1945; attitude to dropping of atomic bombs on Japan, 8/1945; reaction of crew to dropping of atomic bombs; attitude to service in Pacific, 1945.