HMS Malaya at Capetown, South Africa. by Ivan Berryman (AP) OPN34

HMS Malaya at Capetown, South Africa. by Ivan Berryman (AP) OPN34DHM1009AP. HMS Malaya at Capetown, South Africa. by Ivan Berryman. The Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Malaya is pictured at Capetown in April 1942 en route to Durban from Gibraltar. A veteran of the First World War, Malaya took part in the Battle of Jutland, receiving eight hits, and going on to serve throughout World War Two, surviving a torpedo off Cape Verde in 1941. She is seen here about to recover her Fairey Swordfish floatplane beneath

Ravaged by the combined guns of the allied French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar and by the great storm that followed the battle

For the first major counter offensive of the War in which American forces would play a major role

In the course of the combat

Operation Zitadelle by David Pentland

Orlando Bridgeman is calling Assistant Surgeon Bacot

Size 36 inches x 28 inches (91cm x 72cm)

Whilst flying with A Flight of 85 Squadron on 30th July 1940

together with 7 damaged

As the first scaling ladders are raised near a small bell tower the young Lt

Stralsund I

Focke-Wulf 190s of 9/JG 5 joined the melee and a frantic battle ensued

Tribute to Flt Lt Pierre Clostermann by Ivan Berryman