Implacable SEAFIRES

VJ DAY I SUPERMARINE SEAFIRE A Seafire squadron aboard HMS Implacable was kept especially busy over Japan in the weeks before VJ Day, as Andrew Thomas relates A rare colour view of a Supermarine Seafi re L.III taxiing past US aircraft at Manus before HMS ‘Implacable’ sailed for Japan Via P Arnold After Okinawa operations were completed in May 1945 the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) withdrew to Australia. Here it was joined by new aircraft carrier HMSImplacableand a fighter complement