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File:Operation Jericho - Amiens Jail During Raid 1.jpg

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English: Operation Jericho - Amiens Prison during the raid - picture taken from the accompanying PRU Mosquito (the fuselage & tailwheel of which appears in the top-right of the picture) and also showing one of the attacking Mosquitoes (with bomb-doors open) at the extreme top-left of the picture. The Prison itself is the large, dark building, at the centre-left.
IMW description (object 205023419) reads "Operation JERICHO: the daylight raid by 18 De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VIs of No. 140 Airfield, No. 2 Group, led by Group Captain P C Pickard, to free resistance members awaiting execution in Amiens Jail, France. Here, Mosquitos of No. 487 Squadron RNZAF clear the target at low level as the first 500-lb bombs to be dropped detonate near the south wall of the prison"
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Imperial War Museum - picture scanned by me Ian Dunster 18:58, 18 September 2005 (UTC) from: Mosquito At War by Chaz Bowyer - Ian Allan - 1977 - ISBN 0-7110-0474-9 and credited to: Imperial War Museum.

Original uploader was Ian Dunster at en.wikipedia 18 September 2005 (original upload date)
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