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Old 30th Jul 2013, 20:17
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Plastic Bonsai
 
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Finally got to see this - and it was a fine thing - bit too much dust around when he got the flight - and some stunning vintage flight clips. Just how low was that fourship crossing those fields in the clip they showed at least twice? Lobbing bombs into railway tunnels (and pulling up in time)?

I remember a clip - possibly of Wing Co. Pickard briefing the crews before the Amiens Raid: "We will cross the Channel at low level and no one is to be lower than me!"

Wherever that Mosquito ends up it really needs to be low over Northern France on 18th Feb next year or at very least Mr Williams needs to front a documentary about Operation Jericho with every clip he can find.

I'm a bit of fan so another statistic:

Number of aircraft to take out a "No Ball" site:

30 B17,
17 Lancasters or
1 Mosquito delivering 4000lb straight down.
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