A radio dramatisation of the work of the Fleet Air Arm, as typified by an attack on part of the Italian Navy
Script by Terence Horsley
Produced by Cecil McGivern
A high light in this programme, which will give listeners a vivid picture of the work of the torpedo-carriers, dive-bombers, and fighters of the Fleet Air Arm, is an impression of an attack on a part of the Italian Navy by Fleet Air Arm dive-bombers and torpedo-carriers, with emphasis on the work of the torpedo-carrying aircraft.
This work is highly skilled, and involves probably the most perilous operational dive in aerial warfare. The pilot must fly straight and level through a hell of anti-aircraft shells, and he must continue on that course until he reaches the exact place to launch his torpedo. It is then a question of, as the pilots themselves say, ' Getting to hell out of it as best you can'. That they do first reach the place can best be testified by the Italian Navy.