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Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Units of World War 2

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Combat Aircraft - Helicopters & Miscellaneous

MSRP old price: $20.95


Product Info

Title
Mosquito Photo-Reconnaissance Units of World War 2
Publisher
Category
Author
Martin Bowman
Pages
96
Dimensions
7.5x9.75x.375"
NKG Part #
418705478
MFG. Part #
OSPCOM013
Type
Softcover
Series
COM13

Description

The third volume in the trilogy of Combat Aircraft titles devoted to de Havilland's 'wooden wonder', this book focuses on the Mosquito photo-recce variants, and their users. The design's superb performance, and ability to escape interception by enemy fighters made the Mosquito the ideal choice for the RAF's then-embryonic photographic reconnaissance force. The production standard PR1 subsequently became the first Mosquito variant of any kind to see operational service with the RAF, flying its first sortie [over France] on 20 September 1941. These aircraft flew all manner of bomber support missions ranging from simple post-raid photo-recce to weather checking and experimental H2X radar photo-mapping. All are detailed in this volume.