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Biscarosse again, keeping you busy, Lynn get your scuba gear
Posted by Cees on Fri Aug 09, 2002 09:04:03 AM
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...to search for a Zwilling.
A freak "Siamese twin" among the German aircraft came into the news for the first time last month when a Mosquito Intruder pilot was reported to have shot down over Southwestern France an enemy Diane so strange that he "could not believe his eyes when he saw it".
It was a Heinkel Glider-tug. Like a nightmare edition of the Lockheed Lightning, it consists literally of two Heinkel III twin-engined bombers joined together at the wing tips with an extra engine added at the join. The Heinkel bomber was proved a failure during the Battle of Britain. Its uses a glider-tug, therefore, solved also the problem of what to do with these machines.
Many of these freak aircraft were destroyed by the R.A.F. while attempting a troop ferry service. This aeroplane was found over the seaplane base Biscarosse, near Bordeaux, and the Mosquito pilot, Squadron Leader H. E. Tappin, D.F.C. said that searchlights on the edge of Biscarosse Lake picked him up before he sighted the flying boat and attacked. After a burst at 300 yards range, the "Blohm und Voss" burst into flames. crashed on the shore of the lake and blew up. As a tribute to the value of Mosquito Fighters on long range work, it may be noted that Biscarosse is well over 400 miles from the nearest point of the English coast.