If you don't mind, stop embarking on a crusade based mostly on hearsay and conspiracy theories.
Thanks Chaps
As I dress for this evenings Taranto Night, it occurs to me to wonder:
If you bunch were around back then, how many reasons would you have found to ground the stringbag?
Old.
Slow.
Unsafe.
No armour.
No Nav equipment.
Obsolete.
(probably had sh1t strobes, too)
No Comms
Without The Attack on Taranto, who knows what would have happened in the Med?
Sometimes you just gotta fly it.