Author: Harrison, W.,
Title: SWORDFISH AT WAR.
Description: Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1987, 1st edn., 128pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, half tone photo ills. throughout, diagrams, line drawings and facsimiles in text, oversize (11.5 x 8.5 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of the Fairey Swordfish, designed to meet an Air Ministry requirement for a folding wing two-seat torpedo bomber/fleet spotter for the Royal Navy (RAF personnel still serviced and flew aircraft from ships at the time), the prototype flew in 1934 and the aircraft went into service in 1936, serving as a Fleet Air Arm carrier-borne and catapult mounted aircraft throughout WW2, notably in action at Taranto against the Italian fleet (1940), against the Bismarck (1941) and against the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen in their dash through the English Channel from Brest to Germany (1942), with technical notes, three view drawings, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 air ministry raf royal navy fleet air arm fairey swordfish biplane torpedo bomber spotter reconnaisance floatplane norway norwegian campaign taranto italian fleet bismarck ark royal channel dash scharnhorst gneisenau prinz eugen vf45


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