The Swordfish Story
by Ray Sturtivant
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Author: Ray SturtivantEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-06-30
ISBN: 0304357111
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Cassell
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Book Review: A superb resource for anyone interested in Swordfish personal accounts or tracking down individual planes
Summary: 5 Stars
I just obtained Ray Sturtivant's magisterial work 'The Swordfish Story'. In this work, besides recounting dozens of pilot/observer reports of various wartime Swordfish experiences, Sturtivant includes these marvelous resources:
* A mini-history of every Swordfish - from when it was delivered to where it served and how it ended. Appendix 4, pages 185-236 of small print. This history is by aircraft serial number. Unbelievable!
* An enumeration with details of every Swordfish lost. Appendix 3
* An accounting of each plane at all major/minor Swordfish actions, where known
* Innumerable photos, not heretofore published in the standard Swordfish modeling booklets. I especially liked the photo of a Swordfish transporting a motorcycle instead of a torpedo. There is also a picture of one of the two Taranto Swordfish (L4A) shot down and 'raised' by the Italians.
It is clear that Sturtivant spared no effort in tracking down every Swordfish. In notable Swordfish actions, he has a table inserted into the text with each plane present, crew, number, and serial number. This endeavor could simply not be duplicated and Sturtivant deserves the DFC at least!
Although there are other books on the Swordfish focused on modeling (Swordfish in Action for one) and also books on individual's war histories ('To War in a Stringbag') which are also excellent, Sturtivant does the best at detailed, first-person accounts of many, many Swordfish actions.
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