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FROM: The Bomber Command
Historical Society
100 Group were formed on November the 23rd
1943, with their headquarters at Radlett in Hertfordshire, although they soon
relocated to Bylaugh Hall
near Swanton Morley in Norfolk.
Also known as "100 (Bomber Support) Group, they were the
"clandestine" side of Bomber Command. Their trade was electronic
warfare, radio countermeasures, radar jamming, and night-fighter activities.
They flew a wide and varied assortment of aircraft, predominantly from
airfields in East Anglia.
From the fast twin-engined Mosquito to the four-engined "Heavies",
100 Group sent them all up, and by the end of the war had played a huge part
in reducing the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe night-fighters and ground
defences. although disbanded in December 1945 with the same Commander as it
has started out with (Air Vice-Marshall Addison), it had played a large part in
giving credibility to the new form of conflict - electronic warfare.
FROM: The R.A.F. official history
website
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/dehavillandmosquito.cfm
The creation No 100 Group within Bomber
Command saw Mosquitoes employed electronic counter-measures (ECM) and 'spoof'
sorties over Germany
to deceive defending forces. Others joined the main bomber force and sought
out German fighters whist the bombers attacked their targets. One little
recorded mission of a small number of Mosquitoes was espionage. Operated by
British Overseas Airways (one of the forerunners of British Airways), the
aircraft were disarmed and modified to carry a 'passenger' in the bomb bay.
In January 1943 they started a 'courier' run between Stockholm and Leuchars and flew a total of
520 flights before the service ended.
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