SH3 Swordfish are easy meat - even for a single barrel 2 cm flak with a trained PO.
They appear 39/40 around "England" - often two or three of them as a wing.
If you are man enough to stay surfaced to identify the reported aircraft as Swordfish, you may want to turn on its course to keep it directly at your six. Speed up to provide a stable platform, let the gunner start at long distance and watch the fish BBQ - without being hit yourself.
To down bigger "flying fish" you need more firepower. To engage a Short Sunderland it takes 8 barrels of 2 cm - or better.
Keeping them at your six is dangerous. If they make it to drop their cans you will take damage. They are good in "dropping in the right direction". Along a 70 meters boat it is no art.
But they are not as good in "dropping in the right range". So to provide a stable platform for your gunners, turn to a course 90° to the incomming aircraft and slow down/stop the boat. The aircraft won't do a better job and probably drop short or long - but your gunners will.
Shoot only at incoming aircraft - or waste your ammunition.
The longer the war the better the crews, so consider diving to be the better choice.
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