Was AMAZED to see SWORDFISH loitering over Finglesham and Bettshanger near Deal last month. Tried to explain to my grandchildren what an historic aircraft we were seeing . We previously visited the memorial in Ramsgate to the gallant Swordfish attack against the Scharnhorst in February 1942. Stunning to watch a Swordfish circling low overhead for 15 minutes before joining up with what looked like a Hurricane or Spitfire and then heading off towards Dover. 🫡 to the Swordfish. 🫡 to the bravest of the brave who flew them into such heavy enemy fire. LEST WE FORGET
part of the channel dash for the German navy six Swordfish torpedo-bombers of 825 Squadron FAA, took off from Manston at 12:20 p.m it is said that the officer commanding RAF Manston stood at the end of the run way and Salutes every swordfish that took of as he knew that it was a one way mission for the RN /FAA planes
NOT “Shopping Bag” BUT “Stringbag” was their Nick-name. In my youth, EVERYONE had a stringbag, they were able to be crushed down to fit in the smallest spaces AND could carry a lot and heavy items
Well, the narration did say "stringbag" & then explained to those who may not have been familiar with the term that it was a shopping bag which could carry items of different shapes.
The bravery of the Swordfish crews that day was legendary. Against all odds, these pilots, flying what many considered outdated relics, played a pivotal role in one of the most dramatic naval battles of World War II. Their success underscored the value of courage, skill, and determination in overcoming even the most daunting challenges.
@@curiousuranus810 Obsolescent. Anything as successful as the Swordfish could not be deemed obsolete. It was the best available for most of it's career.
Yes you are right...the Swordfish was designed to drop their torpedo into the sea...naturally fliers found ways to extend their abilities to fight in these aircraft... imagine if Bismarck had escaped undamaged to fight on... imagine the Italian fleet not attacked and destroyed in harbour and the Japanese not studying their notes to attack Pearl Harbour because we showed them how to do it
Yes! My Grandad worked on these and wildcats on escort carriers during WW2. He was proud of the tonnage these old biplanes sank. RIP Albert "trader" Horne RN.
Love Dark Skies. Full of relevant facts, no BS - and most importantly, your delivery is quiet, measured and professional - unlike (sorry to say) most of the 'shouty', in-your-face videos that seem to pour out of the US.
That's a compliment unnecesarily mixed with unnecessary criticism. "Shouty" videos come from some people and from all parts of the world. Shouting is not exclusive to the Leftists who live in the USA.
My father in law was a Swordfish rigger during WW2. He served on HMS Implacable and HMS Indefatigable. Special bloke with some incredible stories about String bags and his buddies.
The Swordfish should be ranked as a legend and take its place up there with the Spitfire and Lancaster. I always think because of how it looks many people just overlook it.
Take your rose-coloured welding goggles off and get real. The string bag was a bag of shit and, unlike the Spitfire and Lanc, it was ditched with alacrity as soon as something slightly better came along.
@@curiousuranus810 really it outlive 2 planes that was suppose to replace it. Just because it was a biplane and slow and does not look pretty does not mean it should not be a legendry plane. It done more for the RN than any other plane and have some impressive laurels to its name. I'm guessing your a person who just think fast good looking planes are the type of planes that apply to legendry status.
@@jonathanpatrick8506 And I'm guessing you're an old git with a flat cap and no imagination. The Shit Bag was supposed to be replaced by the Fairey Albacore, but Fairey can't build aircrarft and that was as shit as the Barracuda. As I said, just because an aircrafdt is better than a truely rubbish plane, it doesn't mean it's not rubbish in it's own right and the swordfish was, even compared to the Douglas Devastator, rubbish. You should read some books and learn a thing or two.
Airplanes have never been covered with canvas. It's too heavy. Earliest airplanes used muslin fabric. Later linen and cotton fabrics were used. Nowadays, Dacron polyester fabrics are used for most. Linen is still available for really authentic restorations, but most that fly regularly use Dacron. There are still some aircraft being built that use fabric covering.
My father worked on Swordfish as an engineer, he had nothing but praise for the Peggy engine. One thing that's forgotten was its ground speed was too slow downwind and with the carrier running 20+ knots a downwind patrol was often seen as a suicide mission. Also it was a big aircraft.
Taranto?? The Swordfish's greatest night crippling the Italian Navy and showing what airpower could achieve. Studied by the Japanese ( not so much America ) and used to deadly effect at Pearl Harbour!
My final drafting in the Royal Navy was to the Royal Navy Historic Flight. I was privileged to gain 30 flying hours in the swordfish in the Telegraphist Air Gunner position. It is such an amazing aircraft
When going down to two crew, it wouldn't be the Observer that was sacrficed, Observer was the Fleet Air arm term for Navigator - a vital role. It was their normal seating space that could be used for an auxiliary fuel tank.
Its speed was not as much concern in the Atlantic because the Germans did not have a any active aircraft carriers and there were no flights in the Atlantic
I read they had a short take of run and could do so in heavier seas than most of its contemporaries and had UK torpedoes worked better may have had more successes to celebrate. The 1st torpedo attack on Bismark resultted in damage to water treatment room. Sadly the lessons the Swordfish taught others were not being taken on board by British Admiralty resulting the loss of HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse with high loss of life due to lack of air cover. I know it's said a carrier was supposed to join Force Z but no name was given & Admiralty papers of the time have no mention of a carrier which was costly.
During the raid, one of the pilots described the ' flaming onions' bursting in front of them as the guns were aiming too far ahead. I think the stall speed was about 60mph.
An out dated aeroplane but despite its design proved such a versatile and deadly fighter plane l knew about how the Swordfish contributed to the eventual sinking of the Bismarck but l just found out how it sunk so many enemy ships and submarines
Interesting fact, the Swordfish was so slow 😮 How alow was it? Yes, so slow you could take it shopping to market and use it as a shopping bag! 😅 Ha ha, just kidding. 🎉 ❤ Love the Swordfish, legendary exploits. ❤
remeber these "bag fighters" made the "VERY FIRST!!" in world history Carrier Attacks on ships, and Man o Wars! at anchor, or in harbor. I know you indicated this history, but "I Think" this is the history of this system's contribution to humanity, and the legacy of these men and their machines. May have famly a pilot of a Bag? Grampa Woody imigrated from the US to Canada under aged with a pilots Lic in about 37? or 38? fought the whole thing through D day ending with the USAAC and a bucket of medals from every ally and the french. RIP! Greatest! I miss you Y'all, YA'ALL!
As my late uncle Jack Morrison would say:There are no good wars if you are the one being shot at. He and his 3 brothers all survived the war but one of them had surgeries for 30 years after it was over and the other one was killed in a car wreck because he was drunk in 1951. One spent most of his remaining life in mental institutions. The price they all paid for that "good war" was common for many returning vets. They knew that there was no other choice than to fight. Sometimes a person has to do what a person has to do.When many were raised with meager food that preceded that war they could do what our present generation can't. CDC states that only 40% of the range of 17 to 24 years can pass a physical for military service in the USA.
@@paulcallicoat7597 Hence that I qualified with No Envy since my father definitely suffered PTSD and hit me before he was awake once. But I look at the NAZIs and Japan of the time and it was an important thing to defend out nation. Wars since have been of failed morality and wasted courage, as I see things during my life since 1952.
The German engineers helped make the Swordfish successful, the Bismark's fire control computers could only be calibrated down to 100 knots. While the Swordfish could fly at a speed of just 60 knots.
I always thought the Swordfish looked quite mean? If I was an italian/Nazi sailor and I saw one of these coming towards me I'd think "it looks a 100 years old but they seem really confident"? Plus most of it is thin air covered in canvas so you can shoot holes in it all day and it'll keep coming?
The losses on the scharnhost mission was because these ships had air cover in their run up the channel. Shows the callosusness of the British ruling class in sending these men to certain death with no fighter escorts.
It's WarspitE not spit ! Can't you bloody read? The 'Stringbag' was an amazing aircraft given the times in which it was conceived, with everything else in the aircraft industry going towards monoplane metal aircraft. But she may have been slightly outdated in conceptual terms, but Fairey Aviation made a wonderful stable platform for a seaborne torpedo aircraft and boy didn't the stringbag do the business in a number of important successes for the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Navy.
It's not the shopping bag, it was called the String Bag and, contrary to popular belief, it was so called because it was full of holes. It was a rubbish aircraft, slow, ponderous and outdated - someone in these comments, no doubt, will note that you could strap a bicycle to it as a plus point. It always amazes me quite where people get the idea it was a great machine, whereas it wasn't the incredibly brave pilots and crew, and the psychotic leaders that sent them off on virtual suicide missions that made the bag of shit's name.
They were kept on because of their slow speed which was the speed at which the torpedoes were launched successfully. They were later fitted with rockets for the anti submarine role off of escorts carriers. They were given a lower metal wing. Never used in the Pacific against the Japanese as they were truly obsolete in a fighter environment.
Fairey. The "e" makes all the difference. As for why, although there'd been monoplane designs for decades, biplane was still a common option, with plenty of contemporary designs from other companies and countries. It's a tried and tested technology, relatively cheap and easy to produce, and can handle the performance required from the low powered engines of the early 30s.
One of these days Dark Skies is going to produce a video devoid of mistakes. Today isn't that day unfortunately. We just get the usual sloppily researched mishmash.
they were called 'string bags' by their air crew , no one ever called 'shopping bags' that slang phrase came from the usa in the fifties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was AMAZED to see SWORDFISH loitering over Finglesham and Bettshanger near Deal last month. Tried to explain to my grandchildren what an historic aircraft we were seeing . We previously visited the memorial in Ramsgate to the gallant Swordfish attack against the Scharnhorst in February 1942.
Stunning to watch a Swordfish circling low overhead for 15 minutes before joining up with what looked like a Hurricane or Spitfire and then heading off towards Dover.
🫡 to the Swordfish. 🫡 to the bravest of the brave who flew them into such heavy enemy fire.
LEST WE FORGET
part of the channel dash for the German navy
six Swordfish torpedo-bombers of 825 Squadron FAA, took off from Manston at 12:20 p.m
it is said that the officer commanding RAF Manston stood at the end of the run way and Salutes every swordfish that took of as he knew that it was a one way mission for the RN /FAA planes
While today, they're also comfortable with allowing our lives to be depending on a bunch of fairies.
NOT “Shopping Bag” BUT “Stringbag” was their Nick-name. In my youth, EVERYONE had a stringbag, they were able to be crushed down to fit in the smallest spaces AND could carry a lot and heavy items
Well, the narration did say "stringbag" & then explained to those who may not have been familiar with the term that it was a shopping bag which could carry items of different shapes.
The bravery of the Swordfish crews that day was legendary. Against all odds, these pilots, flying what many considered outdated relics, played a pivotal role in one of the most dramatic naval battles of World War II. Their success underscored the value of courage, skill, and determination in overcoming even the most daunting challenges.
I remember a school presentation by Stringbag pilot - Commander Lamb - incredible story.
The old Stringbag's first flight was only three years before that of the Spitfire! Let that sink in. 😮
Dg!sckdm
Obsolete before it was even conceived.
@@curiousuranus810 Obsolescent. Anything as successful as the Swordfish could not be deemed obsolete. It was the best available for most of it's career.
@@petegarnett7731 Just because something is the 'best available' doesn't mean its intrinsically good, or even adequate - ask your wife.
Yes you are right...the Swordfish was designed to drop their torpedo into the sea...naturally fliers found ways to extend their abilities to fight in these aircraft... imagine if Bismarck had escaped undamaged to fight on... imagine the Italian fleet not attacked and destroyed in harbour and the Japanese not studying their notes to attack Pearl Harbour because we showed them how to do it
Yes! My Grandad worked on these and wildcats on escort carriers during WW2. He was proud of the tonnage these old biplanes sank. RIP Albert "trader" Horne RN.
Love Dark Skies. Full of relevant facts, no BS - and most importantly, your delivery is quiet, measured and professional - unlike (sorry to say) most of the 'shouty', in-your-face videos that seem to pour out of the US.
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Finally, a RUclipsr who understands the correct definition of 'Stringbag'.
(shame about the Hs126 footage at 13.37 though).
That's a compliment unnecesarily mixed with unnecessary criticism. "Shouty" videos come from some people and from all parts of the world. Shouting is not exclusive to the Leftists who live in the USA.
My father in law was a Swordfish rigger during WW2. He served on HMS Implacable and HMS Indefatigable. Special bloke with some incredible stories about String bags and his buddies.
The Swordfish should be ranked as a legend and take its place up there with the Spitfire and Lancaster. I always think because of how it looks many people just overlook it.
No it shouldn't, it was shit.
@@curiousuranus810 The Swordfish sank more tonnage of Axis shipping than any other aircraft.
Take your rose-coloured welding goggles off and get real. The string bag was a bag of shit and, unlike the Spitfire and Lanc, it was ditched with alacrity as soon as something slightly better came along.
@@curiousuranus810 really it outlive 2 planes that was suppose to replace it. Just because it was a biplane and slow and does not look pretty does not mean it should not be a legendry plane. It done more for the RN than any other plane and have some impressive laurels to its name. I'm guessing your a person who just think fast good looking planes are the type of planes that apply to legendry status.
@@jonathanpatrick8506 And I'm guessing you're an old git with a flat cap and no imagination. The Shit Bag was supposed to be replaced by the Fairey Albacore, but Fairey can't build aircrarft and that was as shit as the Barracuda. As I said, just because an aircrafdt is better than a truely rubbish plane, it doesn't mean it's not rubbish in it's own right and the swordfish was, even compared to the Douglas Devastator, rubbish. You should read some books and learn a thing or two.
The thirties saw a huge technological change in Aviation. It started with linen covered biplanes and ended with Jets. Incredible.
The industry as a whole I would say.
It didn’t exist pre 1900.
By the end of the 1950s yanks had the SR-71 sorted out.
@@erikwigelandiestad2270 66 years from first flight to walking on the moon.
I thought you were mistaken about jets existing in the 30’s until a quick search revealed that the Heinkel He 178 flew in 1939. 😉👍
Airplanes have never been covered with canvas. It's too heavy. Earliest airplanes used muslin fabric. Later linen and cotton fabrics were used. Nowadays, Dacron polyester fabrics are used for most. Linen is still available for really authentic restorations, but most that fly regularly use Dacron. There are still some aircraft being built that use fabric covering.
Outstanding aircraft. Outstanding video. Well done !!
A rubbish aircraft.
One of the heads of department at my university flew one of these. Good show professor Dun.
My father worked on Swordfish as an engineer, he had nothing but praise for the Peggy engine.
One thing that's forgotten was its ground speed was too slow downwind and with the carrier running 20+ knots a downwind patrol was often seen as a suicide mission.
Also it was a big aircraft.
The 'Stringbag'
Cool clips from 'Sink The Bismark'
Had an Airfix Swordfish as a kid and played torpedoing my model Bismark after watching the film Sink the Bismark
Your videos are a real find for anyone looking for interesting and quality content. Thank you for your creativity and labor!✊🎁🍓
Accidentally wonderful aircraft
Taranto?? The Swordfish's greatest night crippling the Italian Navy and showing what airpower could achieve. Studied by the Japanese ( not so much America ) and used to deadly effect at Pearl Harbour!
When I read that this video was about Britain's Shopping Bag Fighter, I thought for sure this was a documentary on the Battley Townswomen's Guild.
My final drafting in the Royal Navy was to the Royal Navy Historic Flight. I was privileged to gain 30 flying hours in the swordfish in the Telegraphist Air Gunner position. It is such an amazing aircraft
When going down to two crew, it wouldn't be the Observer that was sacrficed, Observer was the Fleet Air arm term for Navigator - a vital role. It was their normal seating space that could be used for an auxiliary fuel tank.
This was an excellent post, as it answered numerous questions I've had as to why it was so successful and persisted throughout the war. Thanks much.
It's fascinating that the Swordfish outlasted It's putative successor, the Fairey Albacore.
Great video on an outstanding, successful aircraft.Liked the music too👍
Shopping bag? I've heard them described as "String Bag" but not shopping bag.
Yes! But the thumbnail got your/mine attention
String bag was a shopping bag. It's said if you listen to the video
Beautiful aeroplane
Loving the techno!
Just remarkable.
Dear Dar,k
It's hard to see a Swordfish in flight without hearing the theme tune from 'Those
Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines.'
Frank.
Amazing that a aircraft obsolete the day it was designed, was so deadly.
Ironic that an aircraft subject to so much derision becomes the greatest torpedo bomber in history.
An intelligent design !!
Good vid.
Its speed was not as much concern in the Atlantic because the Germans did not have a any active aircraft carriers and there were no flights in the Atlantic
STRINGBAG! Swordfish crews were the bravest of the brave.
Made these in sherburn in Elmet just outside of Leeds.
String Bag slow but deadly ❤
Bismarck was the first of the 4 largest battleships to be turned into a coral reef by aircraft.
I read they had a short take of run and could do so in heavier seas than most of its contemporaries and had UK torpedoes worked better may have had more successes to celebrate.
The 1st torpedo attack on Bismark resultted in damage to water treatment room.
Sadly the lessons the Swordfish taught others were not being taken on board by British Admiralty resulting the loss of HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse with high loss of life due to lack of air cover. I know it's said a carrier was supposed to join Force Z but no name was given & Admiralty papers of the time have no mention of a carrier which was costly.
More worrying is if the wind was blowing in the wrong direction the carrier had to slow down for the Swordfish return
Not only was it a string bag nickname,but the strke on bismark was in the nort sea.
I heard somewhere that the actor Laurance Olivier was a Swordfish pilot.
6:03 - HMS Warspit.... yep.. no HMS WarSPITE - as in to 'Spite' one's enemies.
A biplane carrying a radar. Unbeleivable!
Continued to serve longer than its replacement
swordfish could still fly at such slow speed that would cause other planes to stall
Did he not do a Swordfish film not long ago? Maybe that was another channel. So many of them about.
HMS Warspit? it's HMS Warspite! "Spite" as in rhymes with bite, bight, fight...
Warspite was everywhere in WWII
AI is great huh??
I Know You All Love Fighter Jets Help This Channel? Jet Fury •🙏
There's a poster above who says, and I quote: "Full of relevant facts, no BS..".......... I kid you not.
@@billm4138And we’re all training it for free.
Interesting and well delivered, but how did they sink 22.5 Uboats ? Half a Sub ??
My uncle, who was a fitter in a Swordfish squadron, said they were nick-named "stringbags" not shopping bags.
News to me that the Swordfish was a fighter.
11:10 The Swordfish's low speed made them hard for AA guns to track, or the maneuverability permitted by low speed did this?
During the raid, one of the pilots described the ' flaming onions' bursting in front of them as the guns were aiming too far ahead. I think the stall speed was about 60mph.
An out dated aeroplane but despite its design proved such a versatile and deadly fighter plane l knew about how the Swordfish contributed to the eventual sinking of the Bismarck but l just found out how it sunk so many enemy ships and submarines
Early to late war tech was crazy
Interesting fact, the Swordfish was so slow 😮 How alow was it? Yes, so slow you could take it shopping to market and use it as a shopping bag! 😅 Ha ha, just kidding. 🎉 ❤ Love the Swordfish, legendary exploits. ❤
remeber these "bag fighters" made the "VERY FIRST!!" in world history Carrier Attacks on ships, and Man o Wars! at anchor, or in harbor. I know you indicated this history, but "I Think" this is the history of this system's contribution to humanity, and the legacy of these men and their machines.
May have famly a pilot of a Bag? Grampa Woody imigrated from the US to Canada under aged with a pilots Lic in about 37? or 38? fought the whole thing through D day ending with the USAAC and a bucket of medals from every ally and the french.
RIP! Greatest! I miss you Y'all, YA'ALL!
Every Ally?
Did the Russians or Chinese use them?
I don't envy my father's experience of combat. Then again it was a Good War.
As my late uncle Jack Morrison would say:There are no good wars if you are the one being shot at. He and his 3 brothers all survived the war but one of them had surgeries for 30 years after it was over and the other one was killed in a car wreck because he was drunk in 1951. One spent most of his remaining life in mental institutions. The price they all paid for that "good war" was common for many returning vets. They knew that there was no other choice than to fight. Sometimes a person has to do what a person has to do.When many were raised with meager food that preceded that war they could do what our present generation can't. CDC states that only 40% of the range of 17 to 24 years can pass a physical for military service in the USA.
@@paulcallicoat7597 Hence that I qualified with No Envy since my father definitely suffered PTSD and hit me before he was awake once. But I look at the NAZIs and Japan of the time and it was an important thing to defend out nation. Wars since have been of failed morality and wasted courage, as I see things during my life since 1952.
The German engineers helped make the Swordfish successful, the Bismark's fire control computers could only be calibrated down to 100 knots. While the Swordfish could fly at a speed of just 60 knots.
So... what's with the red-painted Swordfish with the invasion markings in the thumbnail? Something from a video game perhaps?
Swordfish would also have been a relatively stealthy aircraft in nascent age of primitive radar & metal skin planes
I love the narration from this RUclips channel always keeps me engaged
I always thought the Swordfish looked quite mean? If I was an italian/Nazi sailor and I saw one of these coming towards me I'd think "it looks a 100 years old but they seem really confident"? Plus most of it is thin air covered in canvas so you can shoot holes in it all day and it'll keep coming?
The losses on the scharnhost mission was because these ships had air cover in their run up the channel. Shows the callosusness of the British ruling class in sending these men to certain death with no fighter escorts.
Any offers what the Luftwaffe biplane is at 2.46
Hs 123 perhaps.
Looks like a Henschel 123 to me.
They called them flying bedsteads to primitive looking but effective lovely plane
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It was a crap machine.
@curiousuranus810 how do you know you were not there you jerk
And, as far as I know, it's the only WWII biplane to be featured in a Sabaton video.
In latter Mks why did they not fit a covered cockpit
My Grandad's cousins sisters dad was in the reserve auxiliary sandwich van corps.
It's WarspitE not spit ! Can't you bloody read? The 'Stringbag' was an amazing aircraft given the times in which it was conceived, with everything else in the aircraft industry going towards monoplane metal aircraft. But she may have been slightly outdated in conceptual terms, but Fairey Aviation made a wonderful stable platform for a seaborne torpedo aircraft and boy didn't the stringbag do the business in a number of important successes for the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Navy.
It was actually called the Stringbag bomber.
Lets watch
When attacking the Bismark they would attack so low and slow the Bismarks guns couldn't depress enough to get a shot.
I think that if you do your research better you will find that the swordfish was nicknamed the string bag because of all of the wire rigging.
I have heard an RN Swordfish pilot in an interview saying it was called the string bag because it could carry anything and everything.
Incorrect. It was named after the shopping bags
Ive heard that the attack on Taranto was studied by Japan.
It wasn't Shopping Bag it was known as the Stringbag........
SWORDFISH!!!
How did they manage 22.5 u-boats? They must have gotten the .5 in dry dock
You should look it up. I figured that they only got half credit for a sinking because the sub was finished off by a destroyer. Just speculating.
Averages
the air crews were told to get hits or don't come home
country of shopkeepers will fly shopping bags
It's not the shopping bag, it was called the String Bag and, contrary to popular belief, it was so called because it was full of holes. It was a rubbish aircraft, slow, ponderous and outdated - someone in these comments, no doubt, will note that you could strap a bicycle to it as a plus point. It always amazes me quite where people get the idea it was a great machine, whereas it wasn't the incredibly brave pilots and crew, and the psychotic leaders that sent them off on virtual suicide missions that made the bag of shit's name.
It sunk more tonnage of shipping than any other allied plane so it wasn't rubbish ya big twerp
Crazy how well that plane performed in ww2 especially in the attack at Toronto
Canada ??
They were kept on because of their slow speed which was the speed at which the torpedoes were launched successfully. They were later fitted with rockets for the anti submarine role off of escorts carriers. They were given a lower metal wing. Never used in the Pacific against the Japanese as they were truly obsolete in a fighter environment.
Toronto!? What did the Canadians do to upset the RN?
i prefer without background music materials :)
Sorry, but some simple research would have shown you that the Swordfish was called the "string-bag" fighter.
What is it this time?
String bag NOT Shopping bag!
Do you mean “Stringbag” Fighter?
Warspite …not warspit …
Why did Fairy not go to a monoplane?
Fairey. The "e" makes all the difference. As for why, although there'd been monoplane designs for decades, biplane was still a common option, with plenty of contemporary designs from other companies and countries. It's a tried and tested technology, relatively cheap and easy to produce, and can handle the performance required from the low powered engines of the early 30s.
One of these days Dark Skies is going to produce a video devoid of mistakes. Today isn't that day unfortunately. We just get the usual sloppily researched mishmash.
Warspite not Warspit!
It sank 22.5 submarines??
Shared kills where multiple aircraft or vessels attack and sink a single ship they share the kill hence a 1/2 kill.
known as the String Bag..............not shoppong
"Stringbag" FFS!!
Whenever I see these popular clips of pipe smoking British officers around a pile of blueprints, I wonder what they are talking about.
String-bag, ,mate. String-bag.
HMS Warspit.. 🤣🤣
Good video but not a fan of the techno music.
The swordfish wasn't a fighter
they were called 'string bags' by their air crew , no one ever called 'shopping bags' that slang phrase came from the usa in the fifties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How can you sink 22.5 Uboats?😂
1. not fighter, 2 not deadliest 3. not secret
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