Taken from personal album of Canadian Jim Sellars, serving in the Royal Marines on board HMS Illustrious

A hard landing on HMS Illustrious 1944

HMS Illustrious under fire while on Malta convoy.  Taken from my fathers photo album.  The Illustrious (aircraft carrier) was part of a convoy to relieve Malta at the time.  My father was Canadian, raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan who was living in Sheffield when the war broke out.  He joined the British Royal Marines at age 17 and was 18 when he completed training at Stonehouse Barracks in Plymouth.  The Germans almost sank the Illustrious in this action.   

HMS ILLUSTRIOUS UNDER FIRE

From the private album of my father James Sellars RM.  This aircraft was ditched in the Pacific by the HMS Illustrious which was serving in support of American Landings at Iwo Jima.