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English: The aircraft carrier HMS Formidable (R67) on fire after being struck by a Kamikaze off Sakishima Gunto. Formidable was hit at 1130 hrs, the kamikaze making a massive dent about 3 m long, 0.6 m wide and deep in the armoured flight deck. A large steel splinter speared down through the hangar deck and the centre boiler-room, where it ruptured a steam line, and came to rest in a fuel tank, starting a major fire in the aircraft park. Eight crew members were killed and forty-seven were wounded. One Vought Corsair and ten Grumman Avengers were destroyed.
العربية: اشتعال النيران بحاملة الطائرات إتش إم إس فورميدابول قبالة جزيرة ساكيشيما غونتو، عقب هجوم للكاميكازي في 4 مايو 1945 خلال معركة أوكيناوا، مما جعلها خارج المعركة لمدة خمسين دقيقة.
Date Taken on 4 May 1945
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This photograph A 29717 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author Royal Navy official photographer aboard HMS Victorious (R38)

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