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Last bombs on Berlin


DDGboy

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Just reading in September's Flypast about Mosquito B.XVI PF407/A of 105 Squadron that dropped the last bombs on Berlin at 2.26am (GMT) on 21/4/45, rather than the long-credited B.XVI MM929 of 109 Squadron which dropped at 2.14am.

 

Adding the historical significance (105 Sqn also undertook the first Mossie bombing sortie against Pont-à-Vendin on 29/8/42) to the fact that she had a Kiwi pilot and an Aussie nav means my Airfix 1/48 kit will now get a change of identity, but not that much out there on 105 Sqn in the last days of the War.

 

HKM show this B.IX in May 45 with just the aircraft code in Dull Red with black serials, would the B.XVI's have been the same or full GB-A codes, and if so in what colour?

 

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TIA, Jamie

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