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The Oslo Mosquito raid (25 September 1942) was a British air raid on Oslo, Norway, during the Second World War. The target of the raid was the Victoria Terrasse building, the headquarters of the Gestapo .
[11] [c] A photographic reconnaissance (PR) Mosquito was laid on for the Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (FPU), to film the raid. The raid was provisionally set for 17 February; the Mosquitos were to arrive over the prison at noon sharp, to catch the guards at lunch for the second wave to bomb them.
Operation Carthage, on 21 March 1945, was a British air raid on Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War which caused significant collateral damage.The target of the raid was the Shellhus, used as Gestapo headquarters in the city centre.
Mosquito FB.VI of 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron wearing 'D-Day stripes' at RAF Lasham in June 1944 Operation Jericho — low-level aerial photo of Amiens Prison during the raid shows snow-covered buildings and landscape. The dark object at top right is the rear fuselage and incompletely retracted tailwheel of the photo Mosquito
On 18 February 1944, a force of Mosquito bombers, escorted by Typhoon fighters, launched a daring raid on Amiens prison in German-occupied northern France. Amiens prison housed hundreds of captured French resistance fighters and the objective of the mission was to allow as many prisoners as possible to escape by destroying the prison walls and ...
The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engined, multirole combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War.Unusual in that its airframe was constructed mostly of wood, it was nicknamed the "Wooden Wonder", [4] or "Mossie".
The operation failed as the Mosquito bombs failed to destroy the Gestapo HQ but caused 80 civilian casualties and one bomber was lost. The Oslo Mosquito raid against Gestapo HQ was scheduled to coincide with a rally of Norwegian collaborators, led by Vidkun Quisling ; from September 25 to 27 his Norwegian Nazi party Nasjonal Samling ('National ...
Mosquito Squadron is a 1969 British war film made by Oakmont Productions, directed by Boris Sagal and starring David McCallum. The raid echoes Operation Jericho , a combined RAF– Maquis raid which freed French prisoners from Amiens jail in which the Mosquitos took part.