Meanwhile the war goes on… British Pacific Fleet 1945 - the largest fleet in Royal Navy history, almost half a million men and women assigned from Britain Commonwealth Forces, Merchant Navy and support personnel.. #WW2 #History | British & Commonwealth Forces

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Scenes from an unidentified Royal Navy carrier of the British Pacific Fleet following the Japanese surrender, September 1945. The start of the clip shows a Supermarine Seafire, an FAA Grumman Avenger and Fairey Firefly landing, the Seafire and Firefly both crash landing. The clip comes from an episode of the British newsreel War Pictorial News, which you can find in full here: https://bit.ly/3JeNRGA Film: IWM WPN 227 | Imperial War Museum London

Movietone - The Mighty British Pacific Fleet in Action WW2: The British Pacific Fleet (BPF) was a Royal Navy formation which saw action against Japan during the Second World War. The fleet was composed of British Commonwealth naval vessels (in order Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada). The BPF formally came into being on 22 November 1944 from the remaining ships of the former Eastern Fleet then being re-designated the East Indies Fleet and continuing to be based in Trincomalee. The British

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