Mosquito Men: The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron

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The author does a nice job of expounding on the power struggle between 5 Group and 8 Group (PFF) that resulted in 627 Squadron moving to Woodhall Spa and 5 Group. This is a truly heart-warming story of loss, recovery and above all, of community' Bernie McGill, author of The Watch House. Richly detailed and superbly evocative in the telling - this is a compelling account of the wartime RAF's most glamorous plane and some of the brave men who flew it. Novel in construction and exceptionally fast, the new plane was soon outpacing the Spitfire, and went on to contribute to the RAF's offensive against Nazi Germany as bomber, pathfinder and night fighter. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

I was hoping for something more like Michael Cumming's excellent "Beam Bombers" about 109 Squadron, As a result, I was sometimes distracted by anecdotes that I felt were non-sequiturs (and why I did not rate this 5 stars).The amount of work entailed in putting in the detail must have been enormous but worth it for me because there is so much about each airman’s life and family. For those fans of the Mosquito aircraft recently described by Rowland White, Mosquito Men will add the human element to this iconic plane.

The Mosquito Men are not acknowledged by any of the other characters in The Plane Scene, and themselves say nothing revealing any information about themselves (or at all). This is a moving and funny debut novel set in a quirky coastal community you will be desperate to visit after reading. Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. In November 1940, a remarkable prototype aircraft made its maiden flight from an airstrip north of London. Following a Mosquito raid on the main Berlin broadcasting station on 30 January 1943, which succeeded in removing Hermann Goering from the airwaves, the Luftwaffe chief observed ruefully: 'It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito.

He has written for many newspapers and magazines on military aviation and is the author of A Bomber Crew Mystery: The Forgotten Heroes of 388th Bombardment Group , and The Crew , the story of an Avro Lancaster crew during the Second World War. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Many aviation history books concentrate only on the aircraft but this book describes the interaction between the politics, strategy and technology of the Allied bombing campaign, to put the Pathfinder operations in perspective. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.