<i>Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1942-1945.</i><br>
Wing Commander F W Hillock, Officer Commanding No. 410 Squadron RCAF (left), and Flight Lieutenant P O'Neill-Dunne (right), standing in front of their De Havilland Mosquito NF Mark II at Coleby Grange, Lincolnshire, with 300 feet of copper wireless cable which they brought back wrapped around the aircraft from an intruder operation over Holland.  On the night of 15 April 1943, Hillock (pilot) and O'Neill-Dunne (observer) mounted a Night Ranger operation to the Ruhr valley.  While flying at low level in poor weather they were suddenly confronted with the radio masts of Apeldoorn station.  Hillock threw the Mosquito into a vertical bank and flew straight through the antenna, tearing several away in the process.  He then continued with the mission before returning to Coleby Grange, whereupon it was discovered that, not only were they encumbered with the cable, but one wing tip had been sliced off by the breaking antenna and the other wing cut through to the main spar (damage visible on the left).
Royal Air Force official photographer
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