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DescriptionDH98 Mosquito bomber (cropped).jpg
English: A Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito B.XVI (serial ML963) in flight. ML963, 8K-K "King" of No. 571 Squadron, the picture having been taken on 30 September 1944, after the aircraft had completed repairs at Hatfield. ML963 was first issued to 109 Squadron on 9 March 1944, going on to 692 Squadron on the 24th of the same month , and then on to 571 on 19 April 1944. It was damaged in action on 12 May 1944 but returned to the Squadron on 23 October of that year. ML963 completed 84 operations with the Squadron, 31 of them to Berlin (one of the others was a low-level sortie to skip-bomb a 4,000 lb bomb into the Bitburg Tunnel, undertaken on New Year's Day, 1945. The crew were Flt Lt Norman J Griffiths & Flg Off WR Ball). Its final sortie came on 10-11 April 1945, when it was abandoned following an engine fire. The crew, F/O R.D. Oliver and F/S L.M. Young RAAF, rejoined their Squadron before the end of the month, F/O Oliver reporting as early as 22 April 1945.
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