John Vincent Brooke

ARNOLD CEMETERY Class A. Cons. Grave 4211.

HMS Indefatigable

HMS Indefatigable was an Implacable-class aircraft carrier built during World War II. She was completed in 1944, and her aircraft made several attacks that year against the German battleship Tirpitz, inflicting only light damage; they also raided targets in Norway. The ship was transferred to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) at the end of the year and attacked Japanese-controlled oil refineries in Sumatra in January 1945 before joining the American forces in March as they prepared to invade the island of Okinawa in Operation Iceberg. Indefatigable and the BPF joined the Americans in attacking the Japanese Home Islands in July and August. Sub Lieutenant John Brooke evidently died in the Uk from wounds or illness. Indefatigable was hit by a kamikaze which struck the base of the carrier's island on 1 April 1945. The bomb it carried did not detonate and this limited casualties to 21 men killed, including Steward Albert Askew from Bulwell, and 27 wounded. Damage to the ship was minimal and the flight deck was back in operation thirty minutes later. (Wikipedia)

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