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To: Spktyr

It’s still pretty amazing that the Bismarck was basically taken out because of lucky rudder hit from a torpedo from a Fairey Swordfish, which was basically WWI aircraft technology. Not to mention their success at Taranto, which influenced the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.


102 posted on 12/02/2019 7:41:27 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

But then look what happened to the Swordfish and the rest of the Fleet Air Arm craft in the Channel Dash. A lot of the Swordfish drivers that successfully attacked the Bismarck got made very messily dead by the Kriegsmarine.


104 posted on 12/02/2019 8:17:30 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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