King George VI inspects Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Malaya, August 1943
King George VI inspects Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Malaya, August 1943, with one of the ship’s four twin 4″/50 Mark XVIs behind him and a Royal Marine-manned Oerlikon 20mm single in the foreground, one of 17 installed at the time. By the end of the war, Malaya had six twin 4″/50s and 47 Oerlikons, plus pom poms. IWA A18624