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Robert Le Page

Luck of the Devil

Flying Swordfish in WWII: The Memoirs of Robert le Page

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Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in the North Atlantic and Arctic seas and covering D-Day. Much of his early war years were aboard HMS Dasher and he was lucky to be ashore when the carrier mysteriously exploded and sank in the Clyde. This decimated 816 Squadron which was eventually re-equipped and then worked up to operational readiness to fly from HMS Tracker. His story is full of insights into wartime naval flying. For example when they were tasked with finding and attacking G… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84468-600-1
  • EAN: 9781844686001
  • Produktnummer: 33498778
  • Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 8'847 KB

Über den Autor


After the war Robert le Page became an academic linguist. This book is based upon a privately published edition now unavailable. Robert died in 2006 but his son, a dramatist and novelist by profession, has restructured the work to include many new notes and letters written by his late father.

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