War in a Stringbag
by:
Charles Lamb (author)
Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war piloting the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish. Antiquated as it was, the "Stringbag" still outmaneuvered almost any other aircraft --especially with Lamb at the controls. Go with him into the thick of the action -- landing on the aircraft carrier...
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Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war piloting the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish. Antiquated as it was, the "Stringbag" still outmaneuvered almost any other aircraft --especially with Lamb at the controls. Go with him into the thick of the action -- landing on the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous just before she is sunk by a U-boat in September 1939; flying 29 sorties over northern Europe; attacking E-boats through the nine days of Dunkirk. Also experience the terror of being shot down...and living to soar again, defending Malta and the Mediterranean. A rare story of courage.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780304358410 (030435841X)
Publish date: 2001-12-31
Publisher: Cassell
Pages no: 325
Edition language: English
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