Bristol Beaufighter Torpedo Bomber. Robert Taylor Beaufighter aviation
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BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER
The
Bristol Beaufighter was a Torpedo Bomber and had a crew of two. with
a maximum speed of 330mph and a ceiling of 29,000 feet. maximum normal
range of 1500 miles but could be extended to 1750 miles. The Bristol
Beaufighter carried four 20mm cannon in the belly of the aircraft and upto
six .303in browning machine guns in the wings. it could also carry eight 3
-inch rockets, 1605 lb torpedo or a bomb load of 1,000 lb.
The
Bristol Beaufighter first flew in July 1939 and with some modifications
entered service with the Royal Air Force in July 1940. IN the winter
of 1940 - 1941 the Beaufighter was used as a night fighter. and in
March 1941 the aircraft was used at Coastal Command as a long range strike
aircraft. and in 1941, the Beaufighter arrived in North Africa and
used as a forward ground attack aircraft. The Bristol Beaufighter
was used also in India, Burma and Australia. A total of 5,564
Beaufighters were built until production in Britain finished in 1945, but
a further 364 were built in Australia for the Australian Air Force
Strike and Strike Again by Robert Taylor.
By the spring of 1945, Germanys once all-conquering submarine fleet, driven by allied forces from its bases in estern France, had fled to the relative safety of the Norwegian fjords - territory still remaining under German occupation since 1940. In one of Hitlers last stands, more than 100 U-Boats, merchant freighters, flakships, and other military vessels were hathered in the narrow fjords, laying up by day and sailing undercover of darkness. They were a menace that had to be dealt with. Tasked with the difficult job of eliminating this force were the Beaufighters and Mosquitos of RAF Coastal Commands Strike Wings based in Scotland. - Our job was to go after this shipping and sink it - recalled Wing Commader Colin Milson, C.O. of No. 455s Beaufighters. - The fjords were often just 200 - 300 yards across with cliffs rising vertically up 2000 feet, the deep water allowing the German shipping to get in beneath these high overhanging cliffs. This made for difficult and dangerous fly.........
