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RAF 100 Group 1939-43: The Birth of Electronic Warfare
Janine Harrington
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Description for RAF 100 Group 1939-43: The Birth of Electronic Warfare
Hardcover. An evocative, realistic and people-based experience of how ordinary people come to terms with a country at war, an unseen enemy at their door, reaching to own and control their future. Through acts of conviction, commitment, courage and selflessness, people unite, and with odds stacked against them, discover new ways on the path to victory. Num Pages: 240 pages, 50 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 505.
Air battles over Germany were becoming intense and complex by the Autumn/Winter of 1942. There was deep concern about the escalating losses of RAF night bombers and the ever increasing effectiveness of the German air defence system. Something drastic was called for, and this came in the concept of establishing a specialist RAF unit to become responsible for the operational development, application and co-ordination of all RCM (Radar Countermeasure) programmes, from the air and from the ground. Bomber Command suggested the role for what became No.100 Group in June 1943, to include specialist RCM aircraft from the 8th USAAF. The ... Read more
Air battles over Germany were becoming intense and complex by the Autumn/Winter of 1942. There was deep concern about the escalating losses of RAF night bombers and the ever increasing effectiveness of the German air defence system. Something drastic was called for, and this came in the concept of establishing a specialist RAF unit to become responsible for the operational development, application and co-ordination of all RCM (Radar Countermeasure) programmes, from the air and from the ground. Bomber Command suggested the role for what became No.100 Group in June 1943, to include specialist RCM aircraft from the 8th USAAF. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781554586
SKU
V9781781554586
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Ref
99-1
About Janine Harrington
Janine Harrington was born in Caterham, Surrey, and both parents served in the RAF during the war. Later, her mother shared letters written by her wartime fiance Vic Vinnell. Together with Canadian pilot Jack Fisher, Vinnell served in RAF 100 Group, No. 192 Squadron, at Foulsham in Norfolk. Their disappearance in November 1944 remains a mystery to this day. Trying ... Read more
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