RAF Bomber Command's famous Eindhoven raid

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Bomber Command launches a daring low-level daylight raid on the Phillips radio valve factory at Eindhoven. The raid is filmed from the Mosquito of Sqn Ldr Charles Patterson, who describes the attack in detail. Please visit www.rafbombercommand.com for further information and to support the camoaign for a memorial for the 55,000bomber airmen killed in World War Two.

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  • Have flown several WWII types. Mosquito is the ultimate on my wish list.

    The idea of taking a Boston or Ventura into combat over occupied Europe would take more guts than I think I could have mustered.

  • hilarious voiceover.

  • @saxamaphone it's your favourite plane and you never knew it didn't have rear guns? do you not have any books or even bothered to look online to check the specs?

  • @Aussiephil99 Sqd Ldr L.H. Trent won a vc, he was shot down and made a prisoner of war, i think 10 out of 11 487 squadron venturas were shot down that day. Not long after this they upgraded to the mosquito and used them in operation jericho with the raf and the raaf. Though we did use the ventrua in the pacific also right through to the end of the war.

  • Hear Hear

  • Heros....... Every single one..

  • The RAF Bomber Command Memorial will finally pay a public debt of gratitude to the 55,573 aircrew who lost their lives in World War II defending us against the oppression of the Nazis. All volunteers, they took to the skies knowing the odds they faced, but did so anyway. To raise much needed funds for this memorial the RAF Bomber Command Time Capsule allows you to leave your personal tribute to those who gave everything for us: bombercommand,com/timecapsule

  • Not all of the footage was taken by Patterson. One of the 88 Sqn Bostons carried a camera, and I think took the footage of strafing the buildings on the run in.

  • "OPERATION OYSTER"

  • My dad was down there on the ground during this raid.

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