Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "de Havilland Mosquito - Was It The Most Versatile Aircraft of WW2?" video.

The Tsetse version is covered on another video where the old crew tell their stories. One took out a Ju 88 when a six pounder shell literally knocked an engine off the plane.
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@leehotspur9679 The Stringbag Swordfish was a heavy lift (for its day) STOL aircraft built to fly from heaving carrier decks in the North Atlantic. Today, we do the job with helicopters though I doubt they’d fly in the weather the Fleet Air Arm flew their Swordfish. The pilot credited with hitting Bismarck rudder used a technique done at Taranto. After dropping his fish, turned using rudder only to show the minimum target to the gunners. Japan’s raid on Pearl Harbor was inspired by the Swordfish at Taranto.
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@rovercoupe7104 Sadly fascism is on the way back via China.
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The Mossie should have been used in place of the heavies. Two of these could carry considerably more bomb load than one B17 with the same number of engines and 4 crew instead of 10. Lancaster could carry a lot more weight but was slow and vulnerable. Mosquito should have at least replaced Halifax, Stirlings and many of the Lancasters.
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@13:30 shows what could have been done had the option been considered sooner. Two Mossies could carry more bombs (over similar distances) than one B17 using the same number of engines, with four men at risk versus 9 in the B17. Double the number of aircraft would overwhelm German defences. Double the number of aircraft flying faster than BF109s would be even more effective. I fully agree, Mossie would not totally replace the B17 but the two-for-one approach could have replaced 4/5 of the lumbering heavies.
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