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With the success of the Mosquito as a night-fighting machine, the logical step was to make it into a fighter-bomber operating by day.

Mosquito FB Mk.VI LR308
No.23 Sqn RAF
Malta
March 1944

The island of Malta was to be a thorn in the side of the Axis powers that they were never able to remove. As in Europe the intruder Mosquitos made their presence felt there by disrupting both land and sea communications. Shown here is a black bottomed FB.VI of No.23 Sqn operating in the night-intruder role.

Mosquito FB Mk.XVIII NT225
No.248 Sqn RAF
June 1944

All allied aircraft flying in European skies had black/white stripes painted around their fuselages and wings prior to the D-Day invasion of 6 June 1944. Originally these were around the entire fuselage and wings as seen here on a 57mm cannon-armed FB Mk.XVIII 'Tse-tse' Mosquito.

Mosquito FB Mk.VI NS843
No.464 Sqn RAAF
September 1944

The painting of the D-Day stripes was a very haphazard affair as far as placement of aircraft codes went. Some even had theirs covered up as on this FB.VI of No.464 Sqn. Also note that by September 1944 the wing stripes had been removed, leaving just the under fuselage ones intact.

Mosquito FB Mk.VI HR405
No.143 Sqn RAF

One of the other uses of the day-raiding Mosquito was by the Banff wing in an anti-shipping role. These aircraft were painted in an extra dark sea gray on all upper surfaces and sky on the bottom. However close examination of photos of these aircraft reveals that the EDSG is sprayed over the previous camouflage and the dark green can faintly be seen. HR405 also shows traces of the D-Day stripes on the upper fuselage. Also note the repositioned serial due to the earlier adding of the D-Day stripes.