SWARM STRIKE

Description

Oils on canvas 24 x 36”

Named after a venomous African insect and the sleeping
sickness it inflicts on cattle, the deHavilland Mosquito
FBV1/MkXV111 ‘Tsetse’ was armed with a powerful 57mm
Molins 6-pounder quick-firing gun.

This ‘big-gun Mosquito operated with 248 Sqn, based at
Portreath as part of the Banff Strike Wing on a coastal
shipping strike off Norway 1944. With Hitler’s occupation of
Norway, his land forces became increasingly reliant on
resupply by ships at sea.

RAF Coastal Command amalgamated a number of Mosquito
Fighter Bomber Squadrons to form the Banff Strike Wing.
Operating from airfields in Scotland, the Banff Wing
Mosquito crews wrought havoc on German supply convoys
and their flak ships-escorts.

Mosquito Tsetse NT225/O of 248 Sqn was one of two Tsetses
allocated to this unit on 5th June 1944 and flown by Flying
Officer Bill Cosman RCAF.

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