Special Ops Liberators: 223 (Bomber Support) Squadron, 100 by Steve Bond,Richard Forder

By Steve Bond,Richard Forder

The paintings of the RAF’s a hundred team is still one of many least identified features of the 1939-45 warfare. Even much less has been written in regards to the specifics of day by day digital battle operations and the countermeasures hired. This publication, the results of a long time meticulous study via Squadron chief Richard Forder RAF (Ret’d) redresses the stability by way of focussing on one the heavy devices, 223, and its sister devices at RAF Oulton, Norfolk.

Equipped with former USAAF Liberators, they operated from August 1944 to the tip of the ecu struggle, with a prime function of shielding Bomber Command major strength ops through radio and radar countermeasures opposed to German defenses. by means of reading unique records and recording first hand money owed from either side of the clash, together with these of major strength body of workers, Forder and Bond current a whole, unique and helpful photo of the key and very important actions of the distinctive operatives, and their impression on German defenses.

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