No. 100 Group RAF
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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
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
Branse Burbridge
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Wing Commander Bransome Arthur "Branse" Burbridge, was a Royal Air Force night fighter pilot and flying ace—a pilot credited with at least five enemy aircraft destroyed—who holds the Allied record of
No. 100 Group RAF
…crews were never sure when or where they may come under attack from the marauding 100 Group fighters. Top Mosquito ace with 100 Group was Wing Commander Branse Burbridge of 85 Squadron, with 21 claims from 1944–45. The bomber squadrons of 100 Group utilised various specialist electronic jamming devices to disrupt German…
Mosquito NF XII, with the "thimble" nose