Fairey Fulmar

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Viimeisin historian havainto

29.10.2026

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The remarkable story of how a make-do fighter proved itself indispensable in the harshest theatres of war Fairey Fulmar –The Fleet Air Arm’s Unlikely Hero charts, for the first time, the full history of the Fairey Fulmar naval fighter. A hastily converted light bomber, rejected by the RAF and increasingly obsolete against Messerschmitts and Zeroes, somehow the Fulmar became the top-scoring Royal Navy fighter aircraft of World War II. The Fairey Fulmar was the Fleet Air Arm’s top-scoring fighter of World War II. However, this simple fact belies the contradictions at the heart of the Fulmar’s story – how a hastily converted light bomber, rejected by the RAF and increasingly obsolete against Messerschmitts and Zeroes, held the line during the Royal Navy’s darkest hour. When it entered service in 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain, the Fulmar seemed to put the Navy’s aviators on an equal footing with ‘The Few’, as it was the first naval fighter to share the eight-gun armament

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9780719846847