This is a truly heart-warming story of loss, recovery and above all, of community' Bernie McGill, author of The Watch House. Mosquito Men traces the contrasting careers of the young men of 627 Squadron, including that of Ken Oatley - last surviving member of an illustrious group - who flew twenty-two operations in Mosquitos as a navigator.

He has come to try to process his grief and make himself desirable again as a husband, a father and a business partner.A warm, unsentimental and beautifully-observed book for our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days 'If I were in bother I'd want the Ballybrady bunch at my back. Mosquito Men traces the contrasting careers of the young men of 627 Squadron, including that of Ken Oatley – last surviving member of an illustrious group – who flew twenty-two operations in Mosquitos as a navigator. Following a Mosquito raid on the main Berlin broadcasting station on 30 January 1943, which succeeded in removing Hermann Goering from the airwaves, the Luftwaffe chief observed ruefully: 'It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito.

In November 1940, a remarkable prototype aircraft made its maiden flight from an airstrip north of London. If the Squadron's history has not been well-served in print up to now, this volume sets things to rights. The Mosquito Men are not acknowledged by any of the other characters in The Plane Scene, and themselves say nothing revealing any information about themselves (or at all).The men who flew it nicknamed this most flexible of aircraft 'the wooden wonder' for its composite wooden frame and superb performance.

He provided a concise overview of the change in 627 Squadron's night tactics from high-altitude to low-altitude target marking. Mosquito Men traces the contrasting careers of the young men of 627 Squadron, including that of Ken Oatley – last living member of an illustrious group – who flew twenty-two operations in Mosquitos as a navigator.I did appreciate the lengthy anecdote regarding the personality and combat loss of Guy Gibson while leading a mission that he was not qualified for. I have learnt a great deal about the operations undertaken by Mosquito Squadrons and enjoyed every minute of my read. She fills her days with swimming, fishing, quilting, and baiting the tourists who arrive from the city with more money than sense. Its more familiar name was the de Havilland Mosquito, and it used lightning speed and agility to inflict mayhem on the German war machine.