On this night in 1940, Andrew Cunningham disabused Benito Mussolini of the notion the Mediterranean was the Mare Nostrum.
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Yes indeed Perry – yes indeed.
A great operation by the Royal Navy.
I haven’t seen many of his films.
“I haven’t seen many of his films.”
I LOL’ed 😀
It is good to remember a time when Britain mattered, and was not afraid to defend itself.
The Royal Navy Historic Flight still has a Fairey Swordfish which displays at airshows. The Sage of Kettering and I saw it at Clacton this summer. It flew in alongside a couple of helicopters, which it could just about keep up with. The same aircraft managed to kick the Bismarck hard enough in the rudder to cripple it and make it a sitting duck for the rest of the Royal Navy to deal with. The Swordfish dates from 1934, it was ridiculously slow in its own way, yet the same company 25 years later made the World’s fastest aircraft, the Fairey Delta 2, the first aircraft in which Peter Twiss flew ‘faster than the Sun’.
Those days are gone forever, I should just let them go, but…
And, by some accounts, gave the Japanese the idea for Pearl Harbour.
Britain doesn’t exist.
APL:
Britain certainly does not exist as it did in 1940. That is why I look back with pride, and a profound sense of loss, at that time.
The Taranto raid was a huge success for the Royal Navy, which had been a pioneer of naval aviation. Sadly, it did indeed give inspiration to the Japanese, as it showed that battleships moored in a harbour could be hit by aerial torpedoes.