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CROWDY, Terry. Formidable: Arthur Flint's War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes. 256p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2023. ISBN: 9781399087667.
The wartime story of the author’s grandfather, Arthur Flint, from the Battle of Matapan to the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Salerno, to the Arctic hunt for Tirpitz, then Formidable steamed east to Sydney in 1945 and joined the British Pacific Fleet, fighting alongside the Americans at Okinawa and the final assault against Japan. Profusely illustrated with contemporary images.
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