Major Gordon Corrigan recounts the story of an audacious Allied bombing raid in 1944 in which 15 planes were sent on a mission to destroy a German prison in Amiens, allowing incarcerated French resistance fighters to make their escape. He also examines the aircraft used in the mission - the Mosquito bomber, a light, two-seater plane made of wood, designed to be able to outrun enemy fighters and deliver its payload on target at close range