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To: Vanders9
... we'll hit the decks a-runnin' boys, and spin those guns around...

great men doing great things.

3 posted on 12/13/2016 2:50:13 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: SparkyBass

The photo here looks like a joke . . . but it is a photo of a Swordfish dropping a practice torpedo. This was type of shipborne carrier plane that Jock Moffat flew that fateful day against the Bismark.

“To War in a Stringbag” is the historical record of the guys that flew these things in WWII. They liked and depended on these sturdy, but slow flying biplanes. They also mounted a successful raid in the Mediterranean at Taranto. There they flew into the well protected Italian fleet and basically, took them out of the war. The anti-aircraft fire was intense.

Snowflakes? I don’t think so.

Oldplayer


12 posted on 12/13/2016 3:01:18 PM PST by oldplayer
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