De Havilland's Mosquito was conceived in 1938 as a high speed unarmed bomber, built mainly from wood. Its adaptability saw it as a night fighter, bomber photoreconnaissance aeroplane, high speed courier aircraft, target marker and anti-shipping strike aircraft. This is the story of the Mosquito's design and development, its operational use, with both the RAF and USAAF, and of its production in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Appendices list the many variants, production totals and nightfighter kills. This volume contains many rare and unpublished photographs.
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Operations but not Design,
By Charles Talleyrand (Marquette, MI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: De Havilland Mosquito (Crowood Aviation) (Paperback)
This book has great detail about the operational use of the Mosquito. However it has very little design info. For example, there is a list of every claimed kill by a Mosquito, but no figure showing empty weight. There is much discussion about the use of Mosquitos for bomber pathfinder missions, but no comments on problems the prototype might have had.
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Aviation researchers are forwarned to check official USAAF documents and records before quoting any information from Chapter Seven on the USAAF Mosquito operations. I highly recommend all bona fide aviation researchers glue together pages from this chapter to prevent dissemination of material contained within its pages, otherwise, history will be changed forever.
Norman Malayney
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By mid-1944 pin-point bombing by high speed Mosquitoes, hedge-hopping their way over enemy-occupied Europe in broad daylight, had become a common practice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Command Assignments, Fighter Command, Bomber Command, Air Force, Air Ministry, Banff Strike Wing, Geoffrey de Havilland, Bomber Support, Coastal Command, North Sea, Philip Birtles, Little Snoring, Sea Mosquito, Far East, Des Curtis, Middle East, Richard Doleman, Salisbury Hall, Special Duties, Doug Turner, Light Night Striking Force, Polish Squadron, George Sesler, Ian Thirsk, Leonard Cheshire New!
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By mid-1944 pin-point bombing by high speed Mosquitoes, hedge-hopping their way over enemy-occupied Europe in broad daylight, had become a common practice. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Command Assignments, Fighter Command, Bomber Command, Air Force, Air Ministry, Banff Strike Wing, Geoffrey de Havilland, Bomber Support, Coastal Command, North Sea, Philip Birtles, Little Snoring, Sea Mosquito, Far East, Des Curtis, Middle East, Richard Doleman, Salisbury Hall, Special Duties, Doug Turner, Light Night Striking Force, Polish Squadron, George Sesler, Ian Thirsk, Leonard Cheshire New!
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