How the Mosquito Actually Hunted U Boats The 57mm Gun Nobody Talks About
Автор: Historical Notes
Загружено: 2026-01-12
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In October 1943, ground crews at RAF Portreath gathered around an aircraft that violated every principle of conventional aviation logic. A plane built from wood. Held together with synthetic resin adhesive. Covered in Irish linen stretched tight as a drum. And protruding from its nose—where four Hispano cannons should have been—sat a weapon designed to kill tanks.
A 57mm Molins gun. Nearly a thousand pounds of anti-tank cannon. Mounted in a wooden airframe.
The men of 248 Squadron called it the Tsetse, after the African fly whose bite kills animals many times its size. They were about to take it hunting for submarines.
You've probably seen documentaries about the Mosquito before. The Berlin raids. The speed records. The "Wooden Wonder" narrative that gets trotted out every time someone mentions de Havilland. But here's what those films never actually explain: how the Mosquito hunted U-boats. The operational mechanics. The attack profiles. The radar systems. The impossible choices facing pilots who spotted a surfaced submarine in the grey waters of the Bay of Biscay.
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