British Forces

Avoid mistakes

Mosquitos PR XVI of 680 Squadron Royal Air Force lined up at San Severo Airfield, Foggia Airfield Complex, Apulia, Southern Italy, 1944. Note on the fin and rudder painted with red and white stripes as an identity marking for avoid mistakes by other Allies pilots who often mistook the twin engines de Havilland for German aircrafts, in particular the Messerschmitt Me 410 in effect employed by Luftwaffe on Italian theatre. The No. 680 Squadron RAF, formed in February 1943 from A Flight of No. 2 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU), was equipped with Mosquitoes from February 1944 until September 1946 when was disbanded. Victor Sierra