Experienced Swordfish crews after carrier losses

Did the pilots who flew at Taranto take part in later attacks?

Yes. Crews from the four contributing squadrons served widely afterward, carrying forward substantial interwar Swordfish experience.

Pilots from all four contributing squadrons went on to serve in many later wartime operations. The losses of Courageous and Glorious were strategically damaging, but they also temporarily left the Fleet Air Arm with experienced strike aircrew no longer tied to those flight decks. Fighter pilots were being drawn into other demands, while veteran Swordfish crews retained years of exercises and drills. The transfer of 824 Squadron personnel from Eagle illustrates how the Royal Navy concentrated practised torpedo-bomber skill for Taranto.