Manufactured by Fairey Aviation (eventually acquired by Westland Aircraft in 1960)—the same company that produced another famous WWII “flying fish” (so to speak), the Swordfish biplane torpedo ...
Unlike its namesake, our flying fish was slow and plodding, and it looked downright ungainly, hence its unofficial nickname of “Stringbag,” taken after a style of women’s purse that was popular in ...
A World War II era bomber found by National Grid engineers is now being lifted from the sea bottom off the British coast in time for the 75 th anniversary of D-Day. This week, specialist divers and ...
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