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Formidable

Name: Formidable
Author: Terry Crowdy

Arthur Flint's War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes

Terry Crowdy,

240 pages
English
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Formidable

Arthur Flint's War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes

Terry Crowdy,

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"It's all well-written and well-illustrated with 208 black and white photos and two black and white maps." — Historical Miniatures Gaming Society HMS Formidable was a British aircraft carrier during the Second World War. One of four Illustrious-class carriers, Formidable was an armored carrier, able to withstand air attacks, guarding its precious aircraft hangar with an armor-plated flight-deck. As well as its squadrons of fighters and torpedo bombers, Formidable was armed with sixteen 4.5-inch dual-purpose guns, mounted in eight turrets. When action stations sounded, in one of these turrets, sweating in the tropical heat due to heavy asbestos anti-flash gear, lifting shells from the hoist to the gunner, while frantically turning the air into a 'plum pudding' of smoke and flame to smash the enemy kamikaze from the sky, was the author's grandfather, Arthur Flint. Illustrated with almost 200 contemporary photographs throughout, Formidable is a memorial to the voyages and service of Arthur Flint and his shipmates during the war, from the Battle of Matapan, the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Salerno, to the arctic hunt for Tirpitz, before Formidable steamed east to Sydney in 1945 and joined the British Pacific Fleet, fighting alongside the Americans at Okinawa and the final assault against Japan.

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Publisher

Pen and Sword Maritime

Year

2023

ISBN

9781399087674

Topic

Historia

Subtopic

Biografías militares

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Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Ship That Launched Itself
Chapter 2 His Majesty’s Ship Formidable
Chapter 3 Homeward Bound
Chapter 4 Belfast
Chapter 5 Brunswick, Maine
Chapter 6 The Home Fleet
Chapter 7 Operation Mascot (July 1944)
Chapter 8 Skates and Drippers
Chapter 9 Operation Goodwood
Chapter 10 Life Onboard
Chapter 11 Gibraltar
Chapter 12 The Passage East
Chapter 13 The British Pacific Fleet
Chapter 14 Task Force 57
Chapter 15 ICEBERG 5
Chapter 16 ICEBERG 6
Chapter 17 ICEBERG 7
Chapter 18 The Kamikaze
Chapter 19 The Second Attack
Chapter 20 Black Friday
Chapter 21 Flagship
Chapter 22 Task Force 37
Chapter 23 Target Japan
Chapter 24 The Bomb
Chapter 25 Victory Over Japan
Chapter 26 Hotel Formidable
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Appendix: Service History
Notes
Bibliography