SWORDFISH AT WAR W. HARRISON IAN ALLAN LTD 1987 1st Edition. 30 x 21 cm. 128 pp. HB/DJ In 1939 Britain went to war with a number of obsolescent aircraft types still serving in front-line squadrons. One of these was the Fleet Air Arm's Swordfish, the biplane which went on to sink over 350,000 tons of enemy shipping, assisted in the destruction of at least 12 U-boats, and sank or seriously damaged approximately 30 Axis major warships. In Swordfish at War, Bill Harrison has gathered together first-hand accounts and many previously unpublished photographs to illustrate the operations of the Swordfish, its crews and those who kept them flying. As well, as covering the best-known actions — Taranto and Bismarck — he provides stories and anecdotes from a wide range of theatres and roles, including the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean convoys, Coastal Command ops, the Red Sea, Malta and testing the 'Lily' floating airstrip. 'During the Second Battle of Narvik, as the cloud was too low, we could not do any spotting, so we landed in a small bay down the fiord. After about an hour the gunfire in the fiord had eased so we decided to take off and go back to the ship.' An uneventful time for the Swordfish of Petty Officer Rice? Certainly not — in fact it had reported enemy positions, fall of shot and torpedo tracks, taken photographs, bombed a destroyer and sunk a U-boat!

SWORDFISH AT WAR

W. HARRISON

IAN ALLAN LTD
1987

First Edition.

In 1939 Britain went to war with a number of obsolescent aircraft types still serving in front-line squadrons. One of these was the Fleet Air Arm's Swordfish, the biplane which went on to sink over 350,000 tons of enemy shipping, assisted in the destruction of at least 12 U-boats, and sank or seriously damaged approximately 30 Axis major warships. In Swordfish at War, Bill Harrison has gathered together first-hand accounts and many previously unpublished photographs to illustrate the operations of the Swordfish, its crews and those who kept them flying. As well, as covering the best-known actions — Taranto and Bismarck — he provides stories and anecdotes from a wide range of theatres and roles, including the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean convoys, Coastal Command ops, the Red Sea, Malta and testing the 'Lily' floating airstrip.

'During the Second Battle of Narvik, as the cloud was too low, we could not do any spotting, so we landed in a small bay down the fiord. After about an hour the gunfire in the fiord had eased so we decided to take off and go back to the ship.' An uneventful time for the Swordfish of Petty Officer Rice? Certainly not — in fact it had reported enemy positions, fall of shot and torpedo tracks, taken photographs, bombed a destroyer and sunk a U-boat!

30 x 21 cm. 128 pp.

Very good + condition. Dust jacket slightly worn at the head of the spine. Light dust spotting to the top edge of the page block but otherwise very clean and tidy.





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