title: Night Flyer/Mosquito Pathfinder: Night Operations in World War II (Stackpole Military History Series)
author:  Lewis Brandon 
description: Lewis Brandon was a navigator and squadron leader with the Royal Air Force in World War II, earning the Distinguished Service Order and Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions. Albert Smith joined the RAF at sixteen and completed 90 missions in Wellingtons and Mosquitos.
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  # **15**
  
  Some two hundred miles northeast, Jerym Alsnor crouched in the forest, waiting
  and listening. It was night. The mosquitoes swarmed in clouds; he didn't
  notice. He led two platoons on this mission: his own rifle platoon, and a
  mortar platoon. The rifle platoon carried no rifles this night; they carried
  light machine guns for reach and firepower, and submachine guns for close
  work.
  
  They'd been moving slowly. The word was that since the night of the Great
  Raids, the Komarsi ran strong security patrols in the vicinity of their
  brigade bases. It was very doubtful that they moved in the forest at night,
  but they might well leave outposts at strategic locationsplatoons or even
  companiestheir guards listening nervously in the dark, with fingers on
  triggers.
  
  It was difficult enough for _his_ men in the forest at night. If they'd had
  the night vision of the T'swa, _Homo tyssiensis,_ it would h