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Wing Commander Guy Gibson flew his last mission sixteen months later, on September 19, 1944 when his de Havilland Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen, in the Netherlands. The circumstances leading up to the crash and the death of one of the most highly-decorated RAF pilots in history and his navigator, Squadron Leader James Warwick, are unclear. The since-constructed industrial district commemorates the event with a union jack marked out in colored bricks in center of the street known as Mosquitostraat. Near by are also Gibsonstraat and Warwickstraat.

5 posted on 05/17/2023 7:27:03 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)

Weren’t those Mosquitoes constructed of extremely light weight wood? They were fast as hell and deadly.

6 posted on 05/17/2023 7:33:06 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )