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WW2 Fairey Swordfish HMS Ark Royal Fleet Air Arm Aviation 1939 - Original Photo
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WW2 Fairey Swordfish HMS Ark Royal Fleet Air Arm Aviation 1939 - Original Photo

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A superb original Charles E. Brown photograph of a Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber, serial L9781, banking low over the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal at sea, circa 1939. The Fairey Swordfish, though seemingly obsolete as an open-cockpit biplane, proved to be one of the most effective naval aircraft of the war, crippling the Italian fleet at Taranto in 1940 and sinking more Axis tonnage than any other Allied aircraft type.

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