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The versatile "wooden wonder" of World War II, with stories of the pilots and navigators who carried out daring wartime operations The Mosquito was for many the perfect synthesis of power and beauty and arguably the most versatile of all Allied aircraft built during World War II, and this is its incredible story. No one in authority would believe that a small, unarmed aircraft built almost entirely of wood and with a crew of just two could survive against the Luftwaffe by day and the Nachtjagd by night, but it was soon clear that de Havilland's faith in their idea was well founded. The prototype easily out-ran a Spitfire in test and the Mosquito was ordered into mass production. Three times the Mosquito project was deleted from Britain's future military plans, only to fight its way into the air and turn in performance figures that left fellow aircraft behind and its critics dumbfounded. Altogether, 7,781 examples of the "Wooden Wonder" would be built in no less than 43 versions in Britain, Australia, and Canada. Bomber, day fighter, night fighter, pathfinder, attack aircraft, trainer, reconnaissance aircraft—the Mosquito did it all.
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Martin W. Bowman
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.
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The Mosquito Story - Martin W. Bowman
The Mosquito Story
Martin W. Bowman
First published in 2011
The History Press
The Mill, Brimscombe Port
Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2QG
www.thehistorypress.co.uk
This ebook edition first published in 2014
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EPUB ISBN 978 0 7524 8530 0
MOBI ISBN 978 0 7524 8529 4
Original typesetting by The History Press
CONTENTS
Milestones
The Wooden Wonder
Photo-Recce
Bomber Command
Night Fighting
The Banff Strike Wing
Air Defence of Great Britain and 2nd Tactical Air Force
Post-War
Appendix I Total Mosquito Production
Appendix II Export Sales
Appendix III Mosquito Specifications
MILESTONES
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