Built of lightweight wood, powered by 2 growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wonder that should never have existed: the aircraft the RAF didn't think it wanted then couldn't do without. Flying on operations barely 18 months after a single prototype was ordered off the drawing board, it excelled as a spyplane, night-fighter and pathfinder for Bomber Command's heavies. The Mossie's reputation was cemented by a series of daredevil bombing raids across occupied Europe. So when Churchill's top secret Special Operations Executive needed to destroy the Gestapo HQ in the centre of downtown Copenhagen to prevent a devastating Nazi last stand that might prolong the war for many months, there was only one machine for the job..