I’ve heard that the Swordfish was so slow that the German antiaircraft guns couldn’t get a bead on them. Still, it must have been a sweat beading, butt puckering experience to lay a torpedo in like that.
"I’ve heard that the Swordfish was so slow that the German antiaircraft guns couldn’t get a bead on them. "
That wouldn't surprise me at all. They were called "stringbags" because of all the cables bracing the wings. There was a book, "To War in a Stringbag."
They were the epitome of "low and slow":
German gunners probably couldn't depress the guns low enough.