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JeffroK -> RE: 100 (BS) Gp Mosquitos and Napalm (1/30/2021 10:01:55 PM)
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At least Mossie usage, from Wikipedia
The first known tactical use by the USAAF was by the 368th Fighter Group, Ninth Air Force Northeast of Compičgne, France 27 May 1944[17] and the British De Havilland Mosquito FB Mk.VIs of No. 140 Wing RAF, Second Tactical Air Force on 14 July 1944, which also employed the AN-M76 incendiary in a reprisal attack on the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Götz von Berlichingen" in Bonneuil-Matours. Soldiers of this Waffen SS unit had captured and then killed a British SAS prisoner-of-war, Lt. Tomos Stephens, taking part in Operation Bulbasket, and seven local Resistance fighters. Although it was not known at the time of the air strike, 31 other POWs from the same SAS unit, and an American airman who had joined up with the SAS unit, had also been executed.
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