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Total darkness, even lower, over hostile countries, in late 1944, in winter.
Imagine George Stewart and Paul Beaudet.
Imagine Eugene Gagnon and R.C. Harris.
Imagine Theo Griffiths and Eric Maude.
Imagine Tommy Smith and Arthur Cockayne.
Imagine what it was like.
Now imagine you are practising bailing out of a Mosquito like Sticky Murphy and Jock Read…
Or having a Chrismas dinner with 23 Squadron…
Just imagine what you are missing if you have not read all the posts on this blog about 23 Squadron.
This are great Pierre. Love the Christmas menu.
Thanks for all that you do.
Diane
I sent the link to George also.
I have started a new blog.
http://443squadron.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/in-homage-to-arthur-james-horrell/
Nicole sent me a message about her great-uncle who died in Europe.
I could not resist.
Great post, Pierre. The Mosquito went thru her maneuvers quite well – don’t you think?
Very fast, very nimble…
Deadly armament…
4 20mm cannons under the fuselage and 4 .303 machine guns in the nose.
Must have been camera angle, she didn’t look large enough to carry that much of a payload.
Would you believe they also carried bombs… in the bomb bay of course.
Some versions had rockets under the wings.
There was also an anti-shipping version with a 57mm cannon in the nose.
You know I could go on and on with this conversation.