Much thanks Moggy

Ok…..thanks and I did reach the producer in Los Angles and will discuss with him at a later date if one can buy the documentary. Took him two years to shoot,edit & prdouce this. Now like most documentray makers one faces the challenge of finding an outlet……to sell and show it. Like on The History Channel, The Military Channel here in the US..or a British or European network to recoup ones expenses. I will report back my findings and encourage this to make it on to the dvd market for sure.
This is important WW II history and important to many in the UK & Denmark on what took place here. Hope all is well with you Sir….is the old control tower at Bodney still standing ? If you happen to drive by ….offer it a salute from BlueNoser352. Thanks for your reply Moggy…have a good weekend !

BlueNoser352!

Aircraft involved in the attack (all Mosquito Mk.VI)

No 487 Squadron

RS570 ‘X’

Gp Capt R N Bateson / Sqn Ldr E B Sismore (Raid Leader)

PZ402 ‘A’

Wg Cdr F M Denton / Fg Off A J Coe (damaged, belly landed at base)

PZ462 ‘J’

Flt Lt R J Dempsey / Flt Sgt E J Paige (hit by flak, 1 engine u/s, returned safely)

PZ339 ‘T’

Sqn Ldr W P Kemp / Flt Lt R Peel

SZ985 ‘M’

Fg Off G L Peet / Fg Off L A Graham

NT123 ‘Z’

Flt Lt D V Pattison / Flt Sgt F Pygram (missing)

No 464 Squadron

PZ353

Flt Lt W K Shrimpton RAAF (Pilot) / Fg Off P R Lake RAAF

PZ463

Flt Lt C B Thompson / Sgt H D Carter

PZ309

Flt Lt A J Smith RAAF / Flt Sgt H L Green RAAF

SZ999

Fg Off H G Dawson RAAF / Fg Off P T Murray (missing)

RS609

Fg Off J H Palmer RAAF / 2nd Lt H H Becker RNorAF (missing)

SZ968

Wg Cdr Iredale RAAF / Fg Off Johnson

All aircraft took off at 0840; last back landed 1405.

No 21 Squadron

SZ977

Wg Cdr P A Kleboe / Fg Off K Hall (missing)

PZ306

Sqn Ldr A F Carlisle / Flt Lt N J Ingram

LR388

Sqn Ldr A C Henderson / Flt Lt W A Moore

HR162

Flt Lt M Hetherington / Fg Off J K Bell

No 21 Squadron records list only these four aircraft and crews above as taking part in this operation.

All aircraft took off at 0835; the three which returned did so at 1355.

Story from 2002 on Raid

Leading WWII resistance figure Ole Lippmann dies
September 6 2002

One of Denmark’s leading World War II resistance figures, Ole Lippmann, has died. He was 86.

Lippman, who asked the Royal Air Force to bomb the Gestapo headquarters in an air raid that ended up being the deadliest wartime operation in Denmark, died Tuesday in Copenhagen.

After receiving intelligence that the Germans were planning to arrest the leadership of the banned Freedom Council, Lippmann, as liaison between the Danish resistance and the allies, requested that the RAF attack the Gestapo headquarters in downtown Copenhagen on March 21, 1945.

The raid, which eventually thwarted the Gestapo’s arrest plans, became the deadliest World War II operation in Denmark when British warplanes mistakenly bombed a school and killed 86 pupils and 13 adults.

Most of warplanes hit their target but one aircraft crashed behind the school. The following wave of planes thought the billows of smoke from the crash indicated the target and dropped their cargo of bombs on the school.

In an interview with the Berlingske Tidende newspaper, Lippman later said it was terrible to make the decision to have the Gestapo headquarters bombed because he knew civilian casualties were likely.

The school bombing “was extremely tragic” but ordering the raid was the right decision, he was quoted as saying.

The Freedom Council was founded to lead the resistance groups, which blew up factories that worked for Nazi Germany, and destroyed or damaged railway tracks, bridges, military facilities, and oil and petrol tanks. Denmark was occupied from April 9, 1940.

“He was second to none and an extremely modest man,” said Frank Zorn, a fellow resistance fighter.

In the last three months of the German occupation, Lippmann was promoted to the Allies’ highest ranking official in the Special Operations Executive in Denmark. It was he who welcomed the British troops led by General Harry Dewing as they arrived on May 5, 1945, a day after the Germans had surrendered.

During the first years of the occupation, Danes protested silently. Every morning, King Christian X rode on horseback through Copenhagen, returning his peoples’ salutes but looking away when he met German soldiers.

But by mid-1942, illegal press and sabotage actions against the roughly 210,000 German troops began. The turning point came in August 1943, when people started staging strikes and riots across the Scandinavian nation.

The government resigned after Germans declared martial law

The Mosquito in print !

Nice collection of article & magazine covers on the Mosquito over the years………………….

http://www.mossie.org/articles/articles.htm