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Image: RAF Fortress B.III ECM aircraft at Prestwick 1944

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Description: A Royal Air Force Fortress B Mark III (serial HB796) at Prestwick, Ayrshire (UK), after being fitted with radio counter-measures equipment by Scottish Aviation Ltd. It served with No. 214 Squadron RAF of No. 100 Bomber Group, based at Sculthorpe, Norfolk, from November 1944. Equipment fitted included American AN/APS15 radar in the large radome under the nose, "Airborne Cigar" (ABC) radio-jamming equipment (shown by the large aerial on top of the fuselage), and an "Airborne Grocer" aircraft radar jamming installation, the aerials of which can be seen on either side of the tail turret. HB796 failed to return from a bomber support mission on 9 February 1945.
Title: RAF Fortress B.III ECM aircraft at Prestwick 1944
Credit: This photograph ATP 13090E comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author: UK Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP)
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