53 Neville and Peter paid frequent visits to Melsbroek, as did their satelites - John Bishop("Bish" - late of 140), "Li" Perry, John Barratt and Tom Palmer.     During March, the armies started to advance again and most of the night effort was directed to the areas between the MAAS and the RHINE where enemy movements were detected on many occasions. The Mosquitos photographed detraining stations and marshalling yards amongst a variety of targets and the conversion of 'A' Flight 140 to night photography was just completed in time for them to put in their maximum effort during the period when the two big river crossings were being made by the Armies. This proved to be of exceptional value because the weather handicapped daylight reconnaissance to such an extent that night sorties were called upon to provide the Armies with much of their essential intelligence. The following figures illustrate the superb effort of 140 when it is realised that this Squadron only possessed 14 aircraft and a tribute must be paid to the ground crews who did so much to make possible the high standard of serviceability on such occasions as this:- During the period 21 to 26 March inclusive 140 Sqn flew 53 night sorties, including 14 on the night of March 25th. Some interesting sorties were flown by 69 with a rather mysterious Sgt Earl as a passenger who was dressed as a soldier but worked for the Navy. He carried a special apparatus to find out if the Huns were using infra-red searchlights to detect the iminent Rhine Crossing. The Wing also was honoured by having its activities described in the 'Sphere', where the Wellingtons were stated to be flying as low as 50 feet, and this produced another "line" from a 69 Sqn N.C.O. aircrew who commented, "What the hell were they doing up there?" Daylight work increased -+ Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.