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Stringbag: the Fairy Swordfish at War, Hardback Book

Stringbag: the Fairy Swordfish at War Hardback

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This is a narrative account of the operations of the Fairey Swordfish throughout World War Two.

The most famous of these was the attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto, crippling three battleships and damaging several other ships as well as the seaplane base and an oil storage depot.

The Swordfish played a prominent part in the Battle of Matapan and in the sinking of the Bismarck.

Less happily, Swordfish were used in the unsuccessful and ill-prepared raid on the Germans at Petsamo and in the abortive attack on the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the Channel Dash in 1942.

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