The Fairey Firefly two-seater strike-fighter emerged from troubled
beginnings to become one of the most widely used and effective
aircraft of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It first saw service in
1944 during the attacks on the battleship Tirpitz as it lurked in
the Norwegian fjords, then served in the Far East as the Fleet Air
Arm tussled with the kamikaze threat. It went on to form an
important part of several embryonic naval air arms in the early
years of the Cold War and performed a vital combat role in Korea in
the early 1950s. In this book, naval aviation historian Matthew
Willis tells the story of this important aircraft using more than
160 photographs, many of them rare or unpublished, accompanied by a
detailed commentary covering every aspect of the Firefly's varied
career from fighter, to sub-hunter, to pilot-less target drone, in
air forces all over the world.
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