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Mobhack said:
Given the Swordfish is not a regular support plane, it would be useful in a scenario where it was doing a night raider type attack, delivering a "cookie" in support of, say, and LRDG attack, I suppose. But not really as a daylight attack aircraft, it would be dead meat.
Cheers
Andy
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Andy,
The "Stringbag" certainly has a place in the OOB as an attack aircraft: during the Norwegian Campaign (fiasco?) and Dunkirk evacuation it was used so (as was the Blackburn Skua, btw.). They were also available for use in the Mediterranean.
Bomb load would be either two 250lb or two 500lb bombs.
By May 1943 the Swordfish could also be equipped with eight 60lb rockets. Several squadrons were formed in the RAF with transferred Swordfish, and flew nocturnal "Channel Stop" sorties in the run-up to D-Day and beyond.
The last ones left front-line service in May 1945. (Having out-lived their successor by about two years!)
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ai.../Swordfish.htm
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