I used to know a guy who'd been an apprentice at De Havillands in Hatfield in 1945. On VE Day he was told to go & get some wood for a celebratory bonfire so he took an axe & chopped up a Mosquito......he said that he now weeps every time he thinks about it.
In his defence he said that there were around 40 Mosquitos parked on the airfield & with the ending of the war they were not really going to be needed.