German Pilots Laughed At Canada’s “Wooden” Mosquito, Until Its Four 20mm Opened Up On Them

March 1943, somewhere over occupied France. The sky stretched endless and blue at thirty thousand feet, where the air was so thin and cold that ice crystals formed on cockpit glass. A German pilot named Oberleutnant Klaus Fischer sat in his Bf 109, scanning the horizon through frost-rimmed goggles. His breath came out in small white puffs inside the cramped metal cockpit. The roar of his engine was deafening, a constant thunder that made his chest vibrate. Then he saw it. A strange shape cutting through the clouds ahead, moving fast. Fischer squinted, pushed his goggles up, and stared harder. The aircraft ahead wore Royal Air Force roundels, the red and blue circles that marked British planes. But something was wrong with it. The fuselage looked different. Too smooth. Too plain. And where were the gun turrets? Every Allied bomber he had ever seen bristled with defensive guns, the barrels sticking out like porcupine quills. This one had nothing. Fischer flipped his radio switch and called to his wingman, Leutnant Werner Hoffmann, flying two hundred yards to his right. His voice crackled with amusement. "Werner, do you see that? It's one of those wooden toys the Tommies are flying now. The Mosquito." Hoffmann's laugh came back through the radio static. "Made from furniture scraps, I heard. Probably held together with glue from a carpenter's shop." Both pilots banked their fighters toward the target, their metal wings catching the sunlight. This would be easy. An unarmed bomber, built from wood no less, against two of Germany's finest fighters made from strong aluminum and steel. Fischer checked his weapons. Four machine guns loaded. Two cannons ready. Enough firepower to tear apart a dozen wooden planes. Some of the sources I used to create this video: 117 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/wwiis-tragic-aviation-accidents/ http://enroll.nationalww2museum.org/see-hear/collections/artifacts/spitfire-and-bf109.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_de_Havilland_Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe