buffnut453
Captain
Here's another Swordfish stat:
"In the Mediterranean, radar equipped Swordfish operating from Malta sank 50,000 tons of Italian shipping per month on average over nine months - with a record of 98,000 tons in one month."
That makes 450,000 tons of Italian shipping alone from just the Swordfish operating out of Malta. That seems like a pretty impressive tally to me....and, again, the operations were primarily at night for reasons that have been discussed up-thread (i.e. the presence of German and Italian fighter aircraft that would make daylight operations impractical for the Swordfish.
"In the Mediterranean, radar equipped Swordfish operating from Malta sank 50,000 tons of Italian shipping per month on average over nine months - with a record of 98,000 tons in one month."
That makes 450,000 tons of Italian shipping alone from just the Swordfish operating out of Malta. That seems like a pretty impressive tally to me....and, again, the operations were primarily at night for reasons that have been discussed up-thread (i.e. the presence of German and Italian fighter aircraft that would make daylight operations impractical for the Swordfish.