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Vital Support by Robert Taylor.


Vital Support by Robert Taylor.
2 editions.
Both editions feature up to 12 additional signatures.
£135.00 - £325.00

Mission by Moonlight by Gerald Coulson.


Mission by Moonlight by Gerald Coulson.
4 editions.
All 4 editions feature up to 3 additional signature(s).
£110.00 - £180.00

Banff Raiders by Stephen Brown.


Banff Raiders by Stephen Brown.
3 of 4 editions available.
£80.00 - £150.00


Strike on Berlin by Anthony Saunders.


Strike on Berlin by Anthony Saunders.
5 editions.
4 of the 5 editions feature up to 3 additional signatures.
£2.00 - £475.00

Prelude to Peace by Ronald Wong.


Prelude to Peace by Ronald Wong.
One edition.
£69.00

Return From Leipzig by Anthony Saunders.


Return From Leipzig by Anthony Saunders.
8 editions.
4 of the 8 editions feature up to 2 additional signatures.
£20.00 - £300.00


The Berlin Express by Stuart Brown.


The Berlin Express by Stuart Brown.
One edition.
The edition features 2 additional signature(s).
£90.00

Knockout Blow by Ivan Berryman.


Knockout Blow by Ivan Berryman.
4 editions.
All 4 editions feature up to 2 additional signature(s).
£60.00 - £290.00

Prowler's Return by Ivan Berryman.


Prowler's Return by Ivan Berryman.
5 of 6 editions available.
All 3 editions featuring up to 4 additional signatures are available.
£2.70 - £280.00


Aces All - Tribute to the Pilots and Crews of 23 Sqn, Malta, 1943 by Ivan Berryman.


Aces All - Tribute to the Pilots and Crews of 23 Sqn, Malta, 1943 by Ivan Berryman.
7 editions.
£2.70 - £2000.00

Overture to Overlord by David Pentland


Overture to Overlord by David Pentland
5 editions.
One edition features an additional signature.
£2.20 - £500.00

Mosquito Attack by Philip West.


Mosquito Attack by Philip West.
3 editions.
All 3 editions feature up to 3 additional signature(s).
£155.00 - £250.00


Mosquito into Attack by Robert Taylor


Mosquito into Attack by Robert Taylor
2 editions.
Both editions feature an additional signature.
£90.00 - £100.00

Home Again by Ivan Berryman.


Home Again by Ivan Berryman.
7 editions.
3 of the 7 editions feature up to 3 additional signatures.
£2.70 - £400.00

Low Flying Mosquito by John Young.


Low Flying Mosquito by John Young.
2 editions.
£70.00 - £110.00


Night Raiders by Ivan Berryman.


Night Raiders by Ivan Berryman.
8 editions.
3 of the 8 editions feature up to 4 additional signatures.
£2.70 - £400.00

Mosquito Sting by Michael Turner.


Mosquito Sting by Michael Turner.
One edition.
£40.00

Shell House Raiders by Ivan Berryman.


Shell House Raiders by Ivan Berryman.
8 of 9 editions available.
All 2 editions featuring up to 3 additional signatures are available.
£2.70 - £500.00


Breakout. Amiens Raid by Mosquitos by Ivan Berryman.


Breakout. Amiens Raid by Mosquitos by Ivan Berryman.
5 editions.
3 of the 5 editions feature up to 2 additional signatures.
£2.70 - £400.00

Return of the Pathfinders by Anthony Saunders.


Return of the Pathfinders by Anthony Saunders.
2 editions.
Both editions feature up to 4 additional signatures.
£120.00 - £195.00

Rover Patrol by Richard Taylor


Rover Patrol by Richard Taylor
2 editions.
Both editions feature up to 3 additional signatures.
£115.00 - £135.00


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Vital Support by Robert Taylor.

Crucial to every squadron in the RAF were the unsung heroes of World War II - the ground crew. Without the vital support of these dedicated men who refuelled the aircraft, rearmed them, maintained them and kept them flying, the pilots and aircrew would, quite simply, never have got into the air. Robert Taylors drawing Vital Support shows ground crew bombing up a Mosquito of RAF Bomber Command.


Mission by Moonlight by Gerald Coulson.

To commemorate this much-loved and incomparable aircraft, Gerald Coulsons evocative painting depicts a Mosquito B Mk. XVI, a high altitude bomber version, on operations deep over occupied Europe. In this guise the Mosquito was by far the fastest piston-engine bomber of World War II, and also the only light bomber capable of delivering the devastating 4,000lb block-buster bomb.


Banff Raiders by Stephen Brown.

Mosquito FB VIs of 143 Squadron, Banff Strike Wing, armed with 25-lb solid armour-piercing rockets on a mission over the north sea early in 1945. Based at Banff on the East Coast of Scotland, the Banff Strike Wing was formed in 1944. Its primary role was to combat the threat of enemy shipping operating from the bases deep within the Norwegian fjords.


Strike on Berlin by Anthony Saunders.

The swaggering figure of the Reichsmarshal swept imperiously into the Air Ministry on Berlin's Wilhemstrasse, his jewel-encrusted baton and extravagant uniform as flamboyant as ever. This was Saturday, 30th January 1943, the tenth Anniversary of the Nazi Party coming to power, and Goering was about to deliver the main speech in tribute to the Party and its leader, the Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler. The Royal Air Force had other plans for the anniversary. In stark defiance of the imagined air security safeguarding Berlin, brave pilots of 105 and 139 Sqn's took to the air in de Havilland Mosquitoes, on course for Germany. Their mission: RAF Bomber Command's first daylight raid on Berlin! The raid was timed to perfection and three Mosquitoes of 105 Sqn raced headlong, low level towards their target - the Haus des Rundfunks, headquarters of the German State broadcasting company. It was an hour before Goering could finally be broadcast. He was boiling with rage and humiliation. A few hours later, adding further insult, Mosquitoes from 139 Sqn swept over the city in a second attack moments before Goebbels addressed a Nazi mass rally in the Sportpalast. Goering's promise that enemy aircraft would never fly over the Reich was broken, the echo of that shame would haunt him for the rest of the war. This dramatic painting pays tribute to this pivotal moment in the war, capturing the Mosquito B.Mk.IVs of 105 Sqn departing the target area, following their successful strike on the Haus des Rundfunk.


Prelude to Peace by Ronald Wong.

Pathfinder Mosquitoes precede a main force of Lancaster bombers to mark out targets zones in the Netherlands fro supply drops during Operation Manna, in the final week of the war


Return From Leipzig by Anthony Saunders.

Mosquitos of 105 Squadron, Marham. No. 105 Squadron, stationed at Marham, Norfolk, became the first Royal Air Force unit to become operational flying the Mosquito B. Mk. IV bomber on 11th April 1942. The painting shows 105 Squadron on the raid of 10th April 1945, to the Wahren railway marshalling yards at Leipzig, Germany.


The Berlin Express by Stuart Brown.

During the climactic phases of WWII, the powerful De Havilland Mosquito, allowed aircrews to fly up to three sorties in twenty-four hours. The German capital was attacked with such regularity the inhabitants christened the high-speed bmber The Berlin Express.


Knockout Blow by Ivan Berryman.

Banff Mosquito H of 404 Squadron flown on its first operational mission by Flying Officer A Catrano and Flight Lieutenant A E Foord spots a German Blohm and Voss Bv138 anchored off Kjevik. They attacked the Bv138 which blew up before going on to attack a Heinkel He115 floatplane which was in the vicinity. This drawing shows the Mosquito making its attack on the Heinkel as the Bv138 explodes in the distance.


Prowler's Return by Ivan Berryman.

Rocket rails empty, Mosquito FB.VI RS619 (LA-F) of 235 Sqn races home low and fast after another successful anti-shipping strike in the Fjords of Norway. On a subsequent mission on 5th April 1945, this aircraft crash-landed in Denmark after suffering a glycol leak. Its crew, Ray Harrington and Bert Winwood, managed to get back home to the UK with the help of the Danish Resistance.


Aces All - Tribute to the Pilots and Crews of 23 Sqn, Malta, 1943 by Ivan Berryman.

Arriving on the island of Malta in the final days of 1942, the De Havilland Mosquitoes of 23 Sqn were soon in action defending the skies around this strategically crucial island and carrying out intruder missions against ground targets as far away as southern Italy. Three of 23 Sqn's FB.VIs are depicted here: HJ675 (V), piloted by Fl Lt P W Rabone (9 victories), DD687 (E), flown by Sqn Ldr N J 'Jackie' Starr (5 victories) and DZ230 (A), the aircraft of Wing Commander Peter Wykeham-Barnes (14 + 3 shared).


Overture to Overlord by David Pentland

RAF De Havilland Mosquito FbIVs of 107 Squadron, 2nd Tactical Airforce on a night bombing mission of the French Railways, as part of the allied preparations for D-Day.


Mosquito Attack by Philip West.

On 31st October 1944 a courageous low level attack was undertaken by Mosquitoes of Nos. 21, 464 and 487 squadrons on the Aarthus University, Denmark, which housed the Gestapo HQ for the whole of Jutland.


Mosquito into Attack by Robert Taylor

Leonard Cheshire VC is one of the most outstanding of all RAF Bomber Pilots. He devised the master bomber technique - flying low over the target marking with flares, allowing the main force to pinpoint the target in the darkness. Cheshire flew over 100 operational missions and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his supreme courage.


Home Again by Ivan Berryman.

A pair of No.105 Sqn Mosquitos return over the English Channel in the early dawn light.


Low Flying Mosquito by John Young.

Flying over the flat lands of Holland, the amazing Mosquito just catches the sunlight re-emerging from the clouds after the heavy shower, the sky brightened further with an as yet incomplete rainbow. The aircraft shown here carries the code GB-S or GB-J, and is from either No.105 Sqn or No.139 Sqn.


Night Raiders by Ivan Berryman.

A pair of de Havilland Mosquito NF. MkII night fighters of 23 Squadron, based at Bradwell Bay, Essex in 1942.


Mosquito Sting by Michael Turner.

DeHavilland Mosquitos deliver a stunning blow to enemy supply lines in a low level attack on the marshalling yards at Ehrang on April 1st 1943.


Shell House Raiders by Ivan Berryman.

Tucked in tight en route to Copenhagen, a wave of Mosquito FB VIs of 21 Sqn and their Mustang Mk.III escorts of 126 Sqn (including top Ace Agorastos John Plagis - 16 victories, on his last mission of the war) approach the Jutland Peninsula after a bumpy crossing of the North Sea on the morning of 21st March 1945. The Mosquitoes went on to carry out one of the most daring and successful raids of the Second World War on the German Gestapo headquarters in the centre of Copenhagen, inflicting irreparable damage to the Shellhus and killing more than 150 Gestapo personnel.


Breakout. Amiens Raid by Mosquitos by Ivan Berryman.

When De Havilland built the prototype DH.98 Mosquito (E-0234) they did so as an act of the purest faith in their design since the Air Ministry had already dismissed the companys proposal for their all-wood aircraft as impractical and unworkable. However, when E-0234 first flew on 25th November 1940, it demonstrated remarkably smooth handling characteristics and its speed, as expected, was outstanding. Here at last was a bomber which, in a straight line, could outfly even the Spitfire, giving rise to such nicknames as Wooden Wonder and, succicntly The Aeroplane. With such an aircraft, it was soon realised, many new possibilities were laid open to the RAF, among them the chance to initiate precision raids whereupon carefully selected isolated targets could be attacked with pinpoint accuracy. Just such a raid took place on 18th February 1944, involving 18 Mosquitoes of Nos 64 and 487 Squadrons in an operation on the jail at Amiens, France, where a large number of the French Resistance were being held for questioning by the Gestapo. It was thought unlikely that any of them would survive their ordeal at the hands of their inquisitors and it was considered more sensible to try to aid their escape by breaching the prison walls, even if it meant that some of the prisoners might be killed in the process. An accurate model of the jail and the nearby town was constructed and each pilot viewed the model from eye level to familiarise themselves with the view that they would get from a planned height of 50 feet. With this knowledge and some carefully selected reference points such as church spires and chimneys, the Mosquitoes, led by Group Captain Charles Pickard, were able to brush over the rooftops of the town and deliver their bombs with incredible accuracy, breaching the prison walls in four places. 258 prisoners escaped in the ensuing chaos and were quickly spirited away by other Resistance groups who were waiting outside. Sadly, a number of French prisoners were killed in the raid and added to the losses of that day was Group Captain Pickard himself who fell victim to marauding Focke Wulf 190s, but the raid had been a tremendous success and further precision attacks using the most superb Mosquito were carried out throughout 1944 and 1945, each one making its own significant contribution to the downward turn in the fortunes of Hitlers Reich.


Return of the Pathfinders by Anthony Saunders.

Never had there been an aircraft like the de Havilland Mosquito; constructed almost entirely of wood with two Merlin engines bolted under each wing it could outrun any other piston-engine fighter in the world. Only when the Luftwaffe's Me262 jet came on the scene did the enemy have anything of such speed but, unlike the Me262, the Mosquito - nicknamed the 'Wooden Wonder' - was perhaps the most versatile aircraft of World War II. Allied squadrons operated Mosquitos in a huge number of roles including both day and night-bombers, night-fighter, as a ship-buster with Coastal Command, bomber support, photo-reconnaissance and, thanks to its speed and manoeuvrability as one of the finest intruders of the war. Mosquitos carried out some of the most dangerous and daring low-level pinpoint precision strikes ever seen and, of course, as part of the RAF's elite Pathfinder force. Formed in 1942 and led by the inspirational Don Bennett, perhaps the finest navigator in aviation history who became the youngest Air Vice-Marshal in the RAF, the Pathfinders were Bomber Command's specialist target-marking squadrons who, flying ahead of the main bomber force, located and identified their assigned targets with flares. Return of the Pathfinders depicts the Pathfinder Mosquitos of 139 (Jamaica) Squadron, a unit that had joined Bomber Command's No 8 (Pathfinder) Group in July 1943. Dawn breaks over a crisp, icy landscape in a burst of colour that illuminates the Mosquitos as they follow the course of the River Great Ouse on their return to RAF Upwood after a long overnight trip to Germany in early 1944. During a period that began on the night of 20 / 21st February 1944 this particular squadron undertook a series of 36 consecutive night attacks on Berlin.


Rover Patrol by Richard Taylor

Operating from two airfields in northern Scotland were the Banff and Dallachy Strike Wings, their sole purpose was to attack all German shipping along the Norwegian coast, and they fought a bitter and dangerous campaign against Hitlers once mighty submarine fleet. Heavily defended by shore batteries, Flak ships with terrible firepower, and marauding Luftwaffe fighters, the Mosquitos and Beaufighters of Coastal Command came under intense fire during almost every sortie they flew. Powered by two big Merlin engines, fastest of these fighter-bombers was the sleek, all-wood highly manoeuvrable two seat Mosquito. Armed with four 20min cannon, four .303 Browning machine guns, and with eight 251b solid armourpiercing rockets, this graceful strike aircraft packed a lethal punch. Typically, sorties began in the dark, with pilots flying loose formation at 50 feet across the North Sea, to arrive over the target area at first light. Then, the ever-present barrage of defensive gunfire as pilots hurtled past sheer cliff faces, twisted and turned through narrow sounds, and dived in pursuit of their prey Suddenly, from the quiet peace of early dawn, the still air was shattered by the roar of Merlins, rockets, gunfire, and explosions, resounding off mountain sides in a deafening cacophony of battle. And within minutes they were gone, leaving a trail of smoke, twisted metal, and another nail in the coffin of the Third Reich.


Mosquito

Used as a night fighter, fighter bomber, bomber and Photo-reconnaissance, with a crew of two, Maximum speed was 425 mph, at 30,300 feet, 380mph at 17,000ft. and a ceiling of 36,000feet, maximum range 3,500 miles. the Mosquito was armed with four 20mm Hospano cannon in belly and four .303 inch browning machine guns in nose. Coastal strike aircraft had eight 3-inch Rockets under the wings, and one 57mm shell gun in belly. The Mossie at it was known made its first flight on 25th November 1940, and the mosquito made its first operational flight for the Royal Air Force as a reconnaissance unit based at Benson. In early 1942, a modified version (mark II) operated as a night fighter with 157 and 23 squadron's. In April 1943 the first De Haviland Mosquito saw service in the Far east and in 1944 The Mosquito was used at Coastal Command in its strike wings. Bomber Commands offensive against Germany saw many Mosquitos, used as photo Reconnaissance aircraft, Fighter Escorts, and Path Finders. The Mosquito stayed in service with the Royal Air Force until 1955. and a total of 7781 mosquito's were built.
Top Aces for : Mosquito
A list of all Aces from our database who are known to have flown this aircraft.
NameVictories
Bob Braham29.00
Branse Burbridge21.00
John Cunningham20.00
George Unwin10.00
Michael Herrick7.00
Robert Fumerton13.00
Russ Bannock11.00
Don MacFadyen7.00
Edward Crew12.50
Joseph Berry3.00


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