Mosquito: Menacing the Reich: Combat Action in the Twin-engine Wooden Wonder of World War II (63 page)

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Two PR.34s were duly lost, PR XVI NS528 breaking its back as a result of a heavy landing at Alipore on 11 August and newly-arrived PR.34 RG213/O ditched into the sea at China Bay eight days later whilst attempting to land on one engine. The crews were unhurt but both aircraft were written off.

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On 20 August Flight Lieutenant J. R. Manners and Warrant Officer F. A. Bodey in RG210/J photographed Penang Island and Taiping in northern Malaya during a return trip of 2,600 miles on a record 9 hour 5 minute flight.