Inside Hatfield England: De Havilland Built 7781 Mosquito Bombers — Downed 600 Luftwaffe

Step inside Hatfield, Hertfordshire on September 15th, 1940—where air raid sirens fade, wood shavings mix with авиа fuel, and an unfinished prototype waits to challenge everything the Air Ministry believed about bombing war. This is the origin story of the de Havilland Mosquito: a radical WWII aircraft built almost entirely from wood, designed without defensive guns, and engineered to survive by one principle—speed as protection.

Follow Geoffrey de Havilland’s gamble as Britain faces scarce aluminum, relentless Luftwaffe raids, and the urgent need for innovation under pressure. From birch plywood and balsa-core construction to Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, the Mosquito becomes a “wooden wonder” that outruns interceptors, reshapes reconnaissance, and delivers precision strikes deep into occupied Europe. Discover how a dispersed network of craftsmen—furniture makers, boatbuilders, and factory workers—helped produce thousands of aircraft, making the Mosquito one of the most versatile and feared platforms of the Second World War.

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