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Reblogged this on battleoftheatlantic19391945 and commented:
SUNDAY, April 18, 2021@15:40-AIRCRAFT CARRIER OF THE ROYAL NAVY, H.M.S. IMPLACABLE; ON ROUTE…STEAMING TO ON THE HIGH SEAS DUTY…FOR THE BATTLE FOR THE PACIFIC/1941-1945!!!
H.M.S. IMPLACABLE, WOULD HAVE REPLENISHED, FOOD STORES, AND POSSIBLY SOME ON LOAN TO THE ROYAL NAVY PERSONNEL, OF OUR ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY, ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE, ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL RESERVE PERSONNEL, WHILE IN VANCOUVER, AND H.M.C.S. ESQUIMALT…NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT, DURING THIS PHOTO ERA!!!
BRAVO ZULU; NICE W.W.II/1939-1945 WAR PHOTO, AND A KEEPER, FOR SURE!!!
BLOG AND PHOTO CREDIT, INCLUDING HIS POSTING…JC’s Naval, Maritime and Military News.
Brian Murza…Killick Vison, W.W.II Naval Researcher-Published Author, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Do you know the destination of HMS Implacable when this photograph was taken?
Suspect that this article in Wikipedia covers this destination -She arrived at Sydney on 24 August, and had her hangars refitted to accommodate Allied PoWs and soldiers for repatriation. Having left her air group behind to maximize the numbers of passengers she could carry, the ship arrived at Manila on 25 September, where she loaded over 2,000 British, American and Canadian PoWs. She dropped off the Americans at Pearl Harbor on 5 October and continued on to deliver British and Canadian passengers at Vancouver six days later. Opened for public tours, Implacable remained for a week before sailing to Hong Kong to pick up several hundred PoWs and continued onwards to Manila to load 2,114 more passengers.
Thank you for your interest. Regards from John Currin