MOSQUITO AIRCREW SIGNING EVENT - 11th MARCH
We're excited to announce this signing event at our UK Gallery where we will be joined by a number of aircrew who flew the de Havilland Mosquito.
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An ideal opportunity to have a copy of COUNTRY LIFE '43 additionally signed!
Our special guests include:
Flight Lieutenant DES CURTIS DFC – serving as a Navigator he joined 235 Sqn on Beaufighters over the North Sea and Norwegian coast. In April 1943 he converted to Mosquitos and helped form 618 Sqn for special operations against the German Battleship Tirpitz. He then flew from bases in Cornwall attacking U-Boats in their pens along the French Atlantic Coast and in September 1944 joined 248 Sqn as part of the Banff Strike Wing flying Mosquitos out of Scotland.
Flight Lieutenant GEORGE PRICHARD – having joined the RAF in 1943 on a direct entry commission, he was posted from Tech Signals Radar (Air) Branch to 151 Night Fighter Squadron on Mosquitos. He supported action on D-Day and across Europe throughout the Normandy Campaign, also maintaining and diagnosing crucial radar equipment. He later moved to ‘Tiger Force’ (Long Range Bomber Force) to fly against the Japanese from bases in Okinawa.
Flight Lieutenant GEORGE DUNN DFC MiD – after qualifying as a Pilot, he initially flew Handley-Page Halifaxes with 76 Squadron on bombing raids over Germany and his missions included the V1 and V2 rocket factory and testing site at Peenemunde in August 1943. After completing 30 Operations he converted to fly the Mosquito and volunteered for the Pathfinder Force, joining 608 Squadron, Light Night Strike Force. He flew a further 14 missions, all of them to Berlin.
And Special Guest signer:
Flight Lieutenant WALTER FORSTER - based in Germany after the war in 1946 he flew Spitfires and then Mosquitos with 98 Sqn. Moving back to the UK he flew Meteors with 65 Sqn from Duxford before moving again to Germany with 234 Sqn flying Hunters. Posted to RAF Leuchars in Scotland with 43 Sqn he again flew Hunters before moving back to Germany on an exchange with the new German Airforce instructing young pilots on the Fouga Magiser jet trainer.
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