HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall under heavy air attack by Japanese carrier aircraft on April 5, ...

HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall under heavy air attack by Japanese carrier aircraft on April 5, 1942. Both ships were sunk. (Previous original caption: "Bay of Bengal. 1942-04-09. HMAS Vampire (left) and HMS Hermes, a British aircraft carrier en route to Australia, being attacked and sunk by a Japanese carrier fleet. It also destroyed twenty three merchant ships. In four months this fleet sank five battleships, one carrier, two cruisers and seven destroyers without suffering one hit." This image was published in a 1958 Australian War Memorial publication, Pictorial History of Australia at War 1939-45, Volume III, page 111. The original caption information was derived from this publication. The same image was published in 1959 in Footprints in the Sea, by Captain Augustus Agar, VC, captain of HMS Dorsetshire. This publication identified the ships as HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire. The image was also one of a series of photographs published in a 1964 Japanese magazine, Ships of the World, No. 80. This publication identified the ships as HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire.)