Pilot’s and Crew Members of Number 681 Squadron, RAF are seen with one of their A De Havilland Mosquito FB MK VI fighter-bombers at Kumbhirgram in North Eastern India’s Assam Valley.
Known as the “Wooden Wonder” because of its all wooden monocoque construction, which was conceived by a suggestion from the British Air Ministry to build a fast twin engine combat aircraft of wooden construction in order to conserve aluminum and other strategic metals for other wartime uses.
As was the case with all successful Second World War British combat aircraft, the “Mossie”achieved the lion share of its legendary combat success and fame over the European continent, however once an initial structural problem caused by the aircraft’s wooden construction being exposed to the high heat and high humidity of operations in the CBI was corrected, the Mosquito, with its powerful nose mounted battery of four 20mm cannons and four 7.7mm machine guns, its ability to accurately deliver a 2,000 pound bomb load, and its very fast speed, the aircraft proved to be a very effective weapon againts Japanese forces throughout Burma.
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