TRUE TO HER NAME
AIRCRAFT CARRIER ILLUSTRIOUS GALLANT ACTIONS IN PACIFIC (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 23. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, comman-der-in-chief of the British Pacific Fleet, boarded the aircraft carrier Illustrious when she berthed recently in Sydney Harbour and personally thanked the crew for their gallantry in actions against the Japanese. “ Illustrious has lived up to her name." said Admiral Fraser. “The war in the Pacific is going faster than was thought possible, and our task is to strike harder and more often so that it may be ended as quickly as possible.”
The commander of Illustrious, Captain C. Lambe, told interviewers that it was amazing that so many Japanese “ kamikaze ” (suicide) pilots' were prepared to throw away their lives trying to crash on to a ship, yet would not fight out the issue when an Allied pilot attempted to give combat.
Illustrious, a unit of the task force which has been operating with deadly effect in Japanese waters, returned to Sydney almost unscarred, tticugh one enemy suicide plane came close enough to touch the carrier with its wing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25852, 24 May 1945, Page 5
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