Implacable's 81-aircraft Pacific group

The Implacable class moved rapidly to the Far East once its northern operations ended. Implacable reached Sydney in May 1945 carrying forty-eight Seafires, twelve Fireflies, and twenty-one Avenger torpedo bombers. The total of eighty-one aircraft combined a large fighter component with thirty-three heavier strike and reconnaissance machines. That total leads into the explanation of how smaller aircraft and greater use of flight-deck parking increased the operational group.