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Dropzone Issue 2 HARRINGTON AVIATION MUSEUMS HARRINGTON AVIATION MUSEUMS V OLUME 6 I SSUE 2 THE DROPZONE J ULY 2008 Editor: John Harding Publisher: Fred West MOSQUITO BITES INSIDE THIS ISSUE: By former Carpetbagger Navigator, Marvin Edwards Flying the ‘Mossie’ 1 A wooden plane, a top-secret mission and my part in the fall of Nazi Germany I Know You 3 Firstly (from John Harding) a few de- compared to the B-24. While the B- tails about "The Wooden Wonder" - the 24’s engines emitted a deafening roar, De Havilland D.H.98 Mosquito. the Mossie’s two Rolls Royce engines Obituary 4 seemed to purr by comparison. Al- It flew for the first time on November though we had to wear oxygen masks Editorial 5 25th,1940, less than 11 months after due to the altitude of the Mossie’s the start of design work. It was the flight, we didn’t have to don the world's fastest operational aircraft, a heated suits and gloves that were Valencay 6 distinction it held for the next two and a standard for the B-24 flights. Despite half years. The prototype was built se- the deadly cold outside, heat piped in Blue on Blue 8 cretly in a small hangar at Salisbury from the engines kept the Mossie’s Hall near St.Albans in Hertfordshire cockpit at a comfortable temperature. Berlin Airlift where it is still in existence. 12 Only a handful of American pilots With its two Rolls Royce Merlin en- flew in the Mossie. Those who did had gines it was developed into a fighter some initial problems that required and fighter-bomber, a night fighter, a practice to correct. Most American bomber (capable of carrying a 4,000 lb. twin engined aircraft had propellers bomb), a PR (photographic reconnais- that spun in opposite directions. On sance) machine and lastly into trainer the Mosquito they rotated in the same and target tug versions. The total num- direction. (resulting in a swing to one ber built was 7,659 including 1,246 in side on take-off and landing). Australia and Canada. Maximum speed was around 400 m.p.h. The last RAF While cockpit conditions were ac- Mosquito sortie in Britain was on May ceptable for the pilot and navigator, th 30 ,1952. None are left flying in the the same could not be said for the SPECIAL POINTS world to-day although it is planned to fly OSS radio operator stationed in the OF INTEREST: one in Canada shortly. fuselage. He worked in a crawl space with little heat, making his life on the · A Red Stocking flight Now, back to Marvin’s story……. flight quite miserable. We later · A strange Carpetbagger Reunion learned that the Mossie wasn’t de- Prior to taking off on the “Red Stock- signed to carry people and equipment. · Remembering Colin ing” mission to Munich, the pilot, the · Valencay Memorial OSS agent and I were given a special briefing. The base commander and · Unfriendly Fire OSS officials outlined the flight plan we · Berlin Anniversary were to follow, including the rendez- vous point and the various altitudes we were to fly. Then the base meteorolo- gist advised us on the route’s weather forecast : temperature, wind speed and direction, icing conditions and visibility. The small Mossie cockpit had just enough room for the pilot and naviga- tor. Though we pushed the wooden GEE Navigation Equipment plane to its limits, the ride wasn’t all used on Mosquito Mk XVI that uncomfortable, especially when P AGE 2 V OLUME 6 I SSUE 2 Radar navigational equipment was key to finding The essential component of the Joan and Elea- the rendezvous area where the Joe on the ground nor was a ground transmitter/receiver small was located. Upon leaving England we used a Brit- enough to be carried in the agent’s pocket. It was ish developed system called “Gee” (see the article in invented by two RCA engineers, DeWitt R. God- our previous issue of “The Dropzone”, Ed.) that al- dard and Lt. Cdr. Stephen H. Simpson. (The de- lowed me to fix the plane’s position even in the vice was named after Joan Goddard and Lt. Cdr. black of night. The “Gee” measured the relative Simpson’s friend, Eleanor.) time it took radio impulses emanating from the tow- ers located in different parts of Britain to reach the The radio equipment was battery operated. The plane. It was extremely accurate flying over Britain Joan transmitter used by the agent on the ground and France, but less satisfactory over Germany. shot its signal skyward, where it was picked up by the Eleanor receiver in the Mosquito. While the The United States needed a longer-range system transmission could be picked up across a 60 mile for the war in the Pacific where distances were far circle at 40,000 feet, the signal cone narrowed to greater than in the European Theatre. To meet this just a couple of feet at ground level. Therefore, need, a system called “Loran” – short for Long the chance of the conversation being picked up by Range Aid to Navigation – was developed. Our German direction finders was almost nil. The con- Mosquito was equipped with Loran that used a se- versation that took place that night was recorded ries of synchronised signals (several “slaves” and by the OSS operator on a wire spool. one “master”), which I charted on an oscilloscope. It took about two minutes for me to determine our lo- Our jet-black Mosquito circled over enemy terri- cation using Loran. tory undetected for half an hour. When the OSS agent gave us the signal, I plotted our return to As the navigator, I was responsible for getting the England. We landed at Harrington and turned aircraft to the rendezvous point. It was the OSS over the recorded conversation to OSS headquar- agent’s job to direct us to the exact location of the ters, which quickly passed it on to U.S. Military In- “Joe”, using a special directional antenna to locate telligence officials. On a subsequent trip to OSS the spy on the ground. Once contact was estab- headquarters in London, I learned that, thanks to lished, I then had to keep the plane in an orbit not to our Joe, OSS officials concluded that German exceed 60 miles in diameter. The winds at 40,000 forces in Bavaria had no plans to continue to fight. feet topped 100 mph that night, making it difficult for If the German General Staff agreed to capitulate, us to hold our position. Even a temporary loss of the war would be over. contact with the Joe on the ground could have com- promised the mission, so I had to constantly instruct Less than a month after our mission, that’s ex- the pilot to make repeated turns and corrections to actly what happened. keep within the required distance. Thanks go to Marvin Edwards for, what I think, is a Happily, we established contact and circled while most interesting war-time memory – JH. the OSS agent spoke with the Joe using the Joan (A more detailed account appeared in the Mos- and Eleanor radio system. quito Aircrew Association Newsletter, April 1997, along with the photo) Lt Webb Lt Smith Lt Kunz (Pilots) Lt Kolacki, Lt Edwards (Navigators) Harrington Spring 1945 P AGE 3 That did it. Yes, he admitted that he had been at I Know You! Harrington, but that had been 50 years ago. The A story sent in by Dot Ringlesbach - wife of the lady said " You used to come down to the Pub and late Jack Ringlesbach I worked there!" Again he agreed that he had gone to the Pub, but as that was 50 years ago she I've often heard that something that has happened couldn't have worked there then, but she said to you in the past may come back some day to again she had worked there and yes, it had been haunt you. Whither this is true or not has left me that long ago and she had aged some over the wondering for a long time. years. Jack and I flew to England back in 1993 - it does- By this time he knew he had to get out of there n't seem possible that it has been that far back in and back to the room where "sanity", as he put it the past, however the date on old pictures and was to be found. He hurried back out of that room printed programs say it is so. Anyway we had many and to our room and into my arms. I hugged him happy memories of the visit until the night before the and reassured him that he was OK and I was his main event - the formal banquet. It goes something wife and we were having a great time and he could like this. show me all the places he had told me about so often in the past. I was in our room at the White Swan getting ready for the evening after a day of riding on the bus and Whatever the explanation, this really did happen seeing things. Jack decided he needed a drink and and he was so shook up when he entered the wanted to visit with some of the fella's in the hospi- room carrying a half full glass of wine that I gave tality room. If truth be known, I think Jack felt as if a him another glass as well to calm him down.
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