Corgi AA32816 De Havilland Mosquito B XX Royal Air Force KB267/AZ-E Wing Commander Guy Gibson, No627 Squadron RAF Woodhall Spa, September 1944

Formed in November 1943 as part of No.8 (PFF) Group, 627 Squadron were detached to No.5 Group, Bomber Command in April 1944 where they specialised in developing highly accurate 'dive-bombing' target-marking techniques, achiving high degrees of accuracy. During 1944-45, 627 Squadron operated by day and night, and there Mosquito ai9rcraft were painted in Day Fighter colours with 'investigation' markings after D-Day. Mosquito KB267 was Personally selected by the legendary 'Dam Buster' Wing Commander Guy Gisbon and flown by him on his last opperation, as 'Master Bomber' to a reid on Rheydt, Germany on 19th September 1944. On the return flight from Rheydt, for reasons which have never been firmly established the Mosquito crashed near the Dutch town of Steenbergen. Gibson and his co-pilot Squadron Leader James Warwick died in the crash and are buried in the town'scemetry. Although no photographs of KB267 are known to exist, fragments of fuselage discovered at the crash site indicate that it carrying these full markings.