Mosquito Mayhem: de Havilland's Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII

by Martin W Bowman

Overview

The flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe entailed the pilot flying dead straight and level for ten minutes on the attack run. Suddenly a tremendous flash lit up the sky about 50 yards ahead of our nose and exactly at our altitude. Within a tenth of a second we were through the cloud of dirty yellowish-brown smoke and into the blackness beyond. I shall never forget the spontaneous reaction of both my pilot and myself. We turned our heads slowly and looked long and deep into one another's eyes - no word was spoken - no words were needed.

The Mosquito was probably World War IIs most versatile combat aircraft. This book contains hundreds of first-hand accounts from many of the two-man crews who flew in them; pilots and navigators. It portrays the dramatic experiences of flying in its many roles as pathfinder, night fighter, reconnaissance aircraft, precision bombing and low-level ground attack aircraft. It describes many of the RAFs most audacious raids on prime but difficult targets where carpet bombing by heavy bombers was likely to be ineffective and cause unnecessary casualties to civilians. It is a remarkable record of the aircraft and the men that flew them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781399085069
Publisher:	Pen and Sword
Publication date:	02/17/2022
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x (d)

About the Author

Martin Bowman is one of Britain's leading aviation authors and has written a great deal of books focussing on aspects of Second World War aviation history. He lives in Norwich in Norfolk. He is the author of many Pen and Sword Aviation titles, including all releases in the exhaustive Air War D-Day and Air War Market Garden series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Chapter 1 The New Wooden Walls Bruce Sanders 1

Chapter 2 'Musical Mosquitoes' 17

Chapter 3 Defensive Night-Fighting 36

Chapter 4 Death In The Dark 62

Chapter 5 On The Defensive Again 84

Chapter 6 The 'Milk Run', Markers and 'Pampas' 118

Chapter 7 'Nuisance' Raiders 168

Chapter 8 The Enemy Within 190

Chapter 9 Jericho 218

Chapter 10 'Jane' 255

Index 267