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Action Imminent
Aichi D3A1/2 Val
Arctic Victory
Battleship Royal Sovereign
Battles of the Malta Striking Forces
British Battle-cruisers
Close Air Support
Cruisers in Action
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver
Destroyer Action
Destroyer Leader
Dive Bomber!
Dive Bombers in Action
Douglas AD Skyraider
Douglas SBD Dauntless
Eagles War
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt
Fighting Flotilla
Fist from the Sky
Hard Lying
Heritage of the Sea
Hit First, Hit Hard
HMS Wild Swan
Hold the Narrow Sea
Impact! The Dive Bombers Speak
Into the Assault
Into the Minefields
Jungle Dive Bombers at War
Junkers Ju87 Stuka
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
Luftwaffe Colours Junkers Ju.87 Part 1
Luftwaffe Colours Junkers Ju.87 Part 2
Massacre at Tobruk
North American T-6
Pedestal: the Convoy that Saved Malta
Per Mare Per Terram
Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka
RAF Squadron Badges
Royal Navy Ships Badges
Ship Strike!
Straight Down!
Stuka at War
Stukas Over the Mediterranean
Stukas Over the Steppe
Stuka Spearhead
Stuka Squadron
T-6 Harvard, Texan, Wirraway and Ceres
Task Force 57
The Battle of Midway
The Great Ships Pass
The Royal Marines a Pictorial History
The Sea Eagles
The Story of the Torpedo Bomber
Vengeance!
Victorias Victories
War in the Aegean
A list of all Peter C. Smiths books is available at www.dive-bombers.co.uk
First published in Great Britain in 2006 by
Pen & Sword Aviation
an imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
47 Church Street
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 2AS
Copyright Peter C. Smith, 2006
9781783409716
The right of Peter C. Smith to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is
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If Fleet aircraft are employed for the type of function for which they were designed, under careful planning and skilful leadership, they can achieve the results which have not been achieved by other aircraft when the prerequisites were lacking.
Deputy Director, Naval Air Division, April 1940
To the memory of a Skua TAG
Richard S. Dickie Rolph, BEM
I have wanted to write this book for half a century. I have been researching and writing about dive-bombing and dive-bombers for most of that time and have written the definitive histories of every aircraft of that type, but not the Skua. It is not that this little aircraft did not interest me; indeed, she has fascinated me for all that period. Why no book then? Well, this is Britain, and in Britain we honour everyone and everything except our own. So my various publishers down the decades would happily publish the umpteenth book on the German Junkers Ju87 Stuka and the American Douglas Dauntless, but not the British Skua. They took more persuading for me to write the books on the Russian Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka, the American North American A-34 Apache and Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, the Japanese Aichi D3A1/2 Val and even the Vultee A31/A35 Vengeance, American-built, British and Australian flown but not the Skua. Even when the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton dragged the wreckage of a Skua from a Norwegian fiord and made a diorama of it, I could not get a hearing for her.
Quite why the only British-built and British-operated dive-bomber should be shunned when the others were favoured has always irked me. So, down the years I spoke to veteran flyers, delved in untouched files and asked questions. Much of what I discovered of the Skua story I used in other, more general, books on dive-bombers, but I always knew that the full story deserved to be told and needed to be told before it was too late and all first-hand knowledge had faded.
That marvellous man, Dickie Rolph, who for many years was a rock and a guide in my Skua research, and to whom I confessed my frustration at this lack of intelligence in the publishing fraternity, once advised me, with the wisdom of age, Remember the story of Bruce and the spider... dont give up. Well Dickie, you are gone now, but I didnt give up, and here, thanks to an enlightened editor, Peter Coles, and a fearless publisher, Henry Wilson of Pen & Sword, here at last is the full story of the Royal Navys only true dive-bomber and her achievements against the odds.
Peter C. Smith
Riseley, Bedford, 2006
I would like to express my deep gratitude to all the many people who have helped me research the Skua in all her aspects over the course of fifty years.
Firstly to those who flew her: pilots, observers and TAGs. I have interviewed and corresponded with quite a number of these gallant, and modest, gentlemen. The majority have now, regretfully, crossed the bar, but it is hoped that their memories, both oral and written, conveyed personally to me and recorded within these pages, will be a small tribute to the enormous debt owed by the nation to their professionalism and self-sacrifice. So, thanks indeed to (in alphabetical order):
Mr R. V. Beckett
Mr W. H. C. Blake
Captain Eric M. Brown, Royal Navy
Colonel F. D. G. Bird, OBE, Royal Marines
Major V. B. G. Cheesman, DSO, MBE, DSC, Royal Marines
Captain R. Halliday, DSC, Royal Navy
Vice-Admiral Sir Donald Gibson
Mr A. E. T. Goble
Captain G. B. K. Griffiths, Royal Marines
Captain Tom W. Harrington, DSC, Royal Navy
Major L. A. Harris, OBE, DSC, Royal Marines
Lieutenant Commander Mike Horndern, Royal Navy
Mr Ronald G. Jordan, an armourer with No. 800 Squadron 1940
Major Alan M. Marsh, Royal Marines
Lieutenant Commander H. A. Monks, DSM, Royal Navy
Major R. T. Partridge, DSO, Royal Marines
Mr R. S. Rolph, BEM
Mr Ken Sims, DSM
Lieutenant Commander David Webb, Royal Navy
Mr Roy Stevens, armourer, RAF.
Also my thanks to the following very helpful people at the various repositories I visited and consulted:
Commander Graham Hobbs, RN, FAA Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset
Jerry R. Shore, Records, FAA Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset
Ms Debbie Stockford, FAA Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset
Mrs Catherine Rounsfell, Assistant Curator, Fleet Air Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset
Klas Gjlmesli, Norsk Luftfartmuseum, Bod
yvind Lamo, Norsk Luftfartmuseum, Bod
Birger Lansen, Curator Norsk Luftfartmuseum, Bod (with thanks for their help and hospitality during my stay with them)
Mr Hugh Alexandria, The National Archives, Kew, London
Caroline Herbert, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
Mr Thomas B. Smyth, Regimental Headquarters, The Black Watch, Perth.
And my deep gratitude to:
Jack Bryant, the former editor of TAG magazine, whose help and knowledge down the years has been inspirational.
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