| Entry Text: | FALLA, Jonathon. Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in WWII. The Memoirs of Robert le Page. 192p., bibliog., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2011. ISBN: 1848845448.
Le Page flew with the FAA from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic and covering D-Day. Much of his early war years were aboard Dasher and he was lucky to be ashore when the carrier mysteriously blew and sank in the Clyde. This decimated 816 Squadron which was eventually re-equipped and then worked up to operational readiness to fly from Tracker. |
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