The posting was as backwater as one could get in recently occupied Holland and in a country whose Government was in London making defiant broadcasts and whose Air Force was reforming as part of the “Allied Airfleet” with British Equipment. Still, the depot was quiet and the four German soldiers on duty were quietly trying to decide how to spend the night, trying not to think of the four poor sods outside that went on patrol. Aside from occasional Air traffic both to and from England nothing much happened here, as long as no passing unit requested whatever supplies it needed. The next unit stationed near there was the 212. Infantry Divison, tasked with defending their little strip of coastline against any allied flanking. So when they heard the engines, they did not pay it any notice, as it was a problem for the Luftwaffe. However, the sound grew louder and louder, and by the time they looked up, the last thing they would have seen were it daytime would have been twelve 1000-pounder bombs being released from three British Aircraft of a type that was as new as the occupation of the Netherlands. However they saw nothing ever again, as the bombs struck and pulverized the depot. The three planes that had conducted this little field test at the behest of Bomber Command, were indeed brand new. So new in fact that the glue holding together their wooden structure had barely dried and that the Germans had so far heard mere rumours about it. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines that produced more power than those that were currently fitted in the Spitfire, the de Havilland Mosquito was the fastest bomber in the British Inventory. Very much a rush job, the plane had been hastened into production so fast that Axis Intelligence was still classifying it as a prototype. This attack would not prove them wrong, as by the time anyone noticed that the depot had been destroyed, the planswere already gunning for the Channel and home. The Mosquito was one of many new war machines that would enter Service over the next few months, and one that was to be as much an Icon as the Spitfire or the Lancaster and that would set the tone for British tactical bombers for decades.