The Amiens Prison Raid WW2.

On a snow-shrouded winter morning in February 1944, 18 DeHavilland Mosquito’s raced wingtip to wingtip at wave-top height across the English channel towards Amiens Prison in occupied France. In company for this mission was a 19th aircraft equipped with cameras to record the rapier-like thrust to breach the walls of Amiens Prison and free resistance fighters facing death at the hands of Nazi firing squads. The raid that followed, known today as Operation Jericho, was one of the most remarkable aerial actions of the entire Second World War. This is that story.