Mosquito Squadron

Mosquito Squadron is a 1969 British war film made by Oakmont Productions, directed by Boris Sagal and starring David McCallum, with a memorable music score starting withpounding bass drum beats to background the V1 flyingbomb theme of the film, which was composed and conducted by Frank Cordell.

After nearly losing his own life on a photographic reconnaissance mission over the Chateau de Charlon in Northern France, Munroe, under orders from a somewhat exuberant Air Commodore Hufford Charles Gray, leads a Barnes Wallistype landuse bouncing bomb referred to as Highball attack against the chateau. There, following the reported capture by the Gestapo of a French Maquis resistance fighter who supposedly talked under torture, Allied prisoners, including a verymuchalive Scott and men from their group, are held as human shields. This is seen in a disturbing film dropped by a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter that, in tandem with one other, raided the base, strafing the airfield and killing many personnel.The Royal Air Force target is an underground tunnel in the grounds of the chateau where new weapons based on the V1 are being constructed. In a coordinated raid, the prisoners are held in the chapel during Sunday morning mass in order to concentrate them in one place, thus allowing French Maquis resistance fighters to get them out once a Mosquito has used one of the Highballs to blow a hole in the outer wall close to the chapel, only not before Father Belaguere Michael Anthony, a Catholic priest and Maquis agent, is killed by an enraged German army officer, Leutnant Schack Vladek Sheybal, for refusing to order the RAF men to go back to their cells. The senior RAF officer amongst the captives, Squadron Leader Neale Bryan Marshall is killed by German machinepistol fire during the breakout as comrades make their way with the help of the resistance fighters out of the chateau grounds while the bombing raid continues with a second wave of Mosquito bombers dropping conventional bombs with the intention of completely destroying the building. ........

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