Air Vice Marshal Edward Barker Addison, was a senior British Royal Air Force (RAF) officer who served as Air Officer Commanding No. 100 Group from 1943 to 1945 during the Second World War. The group jammed Axis radar and communications systems from the air and Addison was its only commander.
Edward Addison
No. 100 Group was a special duties group within RAF Bomber Command. The group was formed on 11 November 1943 to consolidate the increasingly complex business of electronic warfare and countermeasures in one organisation. The group was responsible for the development, operational trial and use of electronic warfare and countermeasures equipment. It was based at RAF stations in East Anglia, chiefly Norfolk.
A 101 Squadron Avro Lancaster with Airborne Cigar (ABC) radio jamming equipment - the two vertical aerials on the fuselage, Duisberg 1944
An electronic warfare Fortress III of 214 Squadron with nose-mounted H2S navigation radar