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100 Group, Royal Air Force    No. 100 (Bomber Support) Group was a special duties group formed on 11th of November 1943, responsible for electronic warfare and countermeasures equipment. It was based in East Anglia, with HQ at Bylaugh Hall, Norfolk.   November 1943 Operations December 1943 Operations 3rd December 1943 New radar equipped fighter force approved 4th December 1943 Transfer to Bomber Command 8th December 1943 Reassigned to Bomber Command and re-located 20th January 1944 Operations 11th February 1944  Crashed into a duck pond 16th February 1944 Battle of Britain Ace shot down over Hannover 26th February 1944 Damaged by debris 3rd March 1944 Operations 16th March 1944 Shot down over Aachen 4th May 1944 Mosquito lost over France June 1944 Luftwaffe responds to AI Radar development 4th June 1944 Mosquito Squadron relocated 5th July 1944 Operations 20th April 1944 Operations September 1944 Operations 1st May 1944 Operations 8th September 1944  New Bomber support squadron formed 15th September 1944 Operations 21st October 1944 Radar jamming system deployed 26th Nov 1944 Halifax Lost 9th Dec 1944 Halifax Lost 6th January 1945 Two Halifax Lost on bomber support mission 4th February 1945 Airborne Mandrel jamming 28th February 1945 Attack Made 4th March 1945 Halifax shot down by Intruder 7th March 1945 Halifax Lost 13th March 1945 Operations 17th April 1945 Heavy bombers lost in mid-air collision If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Logbooks Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession? If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you. View Logbook entries Those known to have served with 100 Group, Royal Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. Wigley Harold. Sgt. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 100 Group, Royal Air Force from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. 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Harold Wigley 405 Squadron My father Harold Wigley was posted to 405 Squadron at RAF Pocklington around May 1941 and I think the squadron was formed to operate from there with Wellingtons and later Halifax Bombers. His logged raids start with a raid on Shwartz on May 12th, Cologne on June 2nd, Brest docks on June 4th, and the Big City on December 15th plus many others that year. He told me a story about a Wellington he was flying that overshot the runway on landing and closed the Hull York Road for a couple of days. After that he went to Abingdon as an instructor and was then posted to 100 Group Special Duties. We are only just finding out about that because he told me on a number of occasions that this was still on the secrets restrictions of 75 years, we know he was flying Mosquitos possibly with 169 Squadron at RAF Massingham in Norfolk. He met my mother there and it seems I was conceived somewhere there and later born in Kings Lynn John Wigley Add to this record. 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