Achtung! Swordfish! - Merchant Aircraft Carriers (MAC ships) - Stanley Brand. A6M During this time

During this time

There is no finer account of war in the Fleet Air Arm'

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Achtung! Swordfish! - Merchant Aircraft Carriers (MAC ships) - Stanley Brand. A6M During this timeThe moving story of youths turning to young men as they fight a well equipped and determined enemy with outmoded equipment and often in appalling conditions. Perhaps lacking the glamour of flying from the great carriers, those who flew from MAC ships (merchant ships converted to carry aircraft) nonetheless made a huge contribution to winning the Battle of the Atlantic. Sub Lt Stanley Brand pranged W5856, the world's oldest flying Fairey Swordfish, in