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SNIP lots
[and then some]

I suspect that the RAF brass regarded the Amiens raid as (quite
rightly) a unique effort to date, and worthy of recording. It was of
course the RAF film unit, subject to normal secrecy conditions. And
the cameraman was very likely to return by virtue of the fact he was
in a Mossie (must have been a glazed nose variant - and with no
armament or ordnance, so freaking fast...)

I've had another look at my recording of the Amiens raid. The film
appears to have been taken from the navigator's seat, judging by the
bits of the cockpit frames that appear. There is also a shot of the
starboard wing and engine looking along the top surface. Perhaps the
navigator was given a camera and told to take what he could when he
could.

Mike

Lots of info about the Mosquito at:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/mosquito1.html

Follow the links for specific attacks. The Amiens page says the raid was
accompanied by a PRU a/c, so filming could have been from the Nav's seat
or through the nose. The Copenhagen attack was filmed by DZ414, a B Mk.
IV of the RAF Film Unit, so the same applies. I would guess that the
footage I've seen on TV was shot from the cockpit over the sea (shots of
Mosquitos flying alongside to starboard) and from the nose over land.

Yup, I came to the same conclusion on the two-position shoot, given the
number of different sequences we saw. However, I did wonder whether the
programme also mixed in other library footage to lengthen the action.
We saw glazed nose Mossies on the ground, and we also had some shots
from the camera aircraft looking DOWN on a flight of Mossies which
occurred after the narrative had talked about a low-level sea crossing
to avoid German radar. Not much help to avoiding radar if your camera
aircraft has popped up a few dozen feet to get a nice shot!

Cheers,

Dave

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Dave Eadsforth