Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Why didn't the Bismarck shoot down any Swordfish?" video.

  1. Well, I'd say you kill a swordfish with a sailfish, but that'd be shellfish of me.
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  2. A Soviet torpedo bomber pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, Pavel Galkin, says that German warships had a gun depression flaw that created a big "dead zone" around their major fleet units. http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/galkin/index.htm
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  3. And its open cockpit provided pilots and observers with an excellent sample of ambient weather. Think it gets cold in the North Atlantic? Try it at 120 miles per hour near sea level in a Swordfish! ;-)
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  4. The Gato class was the best torpedo bomber . . . once you got it in the air . . . and therein lay the trouble.
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  5. You might want to keep that one under your Hood.
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  6. Reposting my comment from below. I think it's apropos: "A Soviet torpedo bomber pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, Pavel Galkin, says that German warships had a gun depression flaw that created a big "dead zone" around their major fleet units." http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/galkin/index.htm
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