Two notable daylight missions were carried out on 30 January 1943, when Mosquitoes carried out two attacks on Berlin timed to disrupt speeches being delivered by
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and
Joseph Goebbels, the
Third Reich's Propaganda Minister. The first, in the morning, comprised three Mosquito B Mk. IVs from
105 Squadron, which carried out a low-level attack on the main Berlin broadcasting station,
[9] at 11:00, when Göring was due to address a parade commemorating the 10th anniversary of the
Nazis' being voted into power. The mission gave the lie to Göring's claim that such a mission was impossible, and kept Göring off the air for more than an hour. A second flight of Mosquitoes from
139 Squadron went to Berlin in the afternoon of the same day to attempt to interrupt a speech by Goebbels at the Sports Palace, and once again bombed at the exact time. However, Berlin's anti-aircraft defences were on the alert and a Mosquito flown by Squadron Leader D.F.W. Darling DFC was shot down, killing both Darling and his navigator.
[10][11] Goering himself was not amused; six weeks later he harangued aircraft manufacturers that he could "go berserk" when faced with the Mosquito, which made him "green and yellow with envy".
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