Boy Scouts (military)
With the term Scouts (Engl. Pathfinder ) are guiding systems of bomber formations, especially during the Second World War , referred to the special electronic navigation systems possessed and were flown by specially trained crews. They had the task of finding the target and marking it with light bombs or simple incendiary bombs for the following bomber formation .
Wehrmacht Air Force
The first closed scout association of the German Air Force was the then still independent Kampfgruppe 100 , which on November 14, 1940 with the new X-procedure u. a. launched the air raids on Coventry . At the Steinbock company at the beginning of 1944, this task was taken over by the I. Group of Kampfgeschwader 66 .
Royal Air Force
In the RAF Bomber Command , the 8th Group had been specializing in scouts since August 1942 and the 5th Group since April 1944. The British planes had navigation systems such as GEE and Oboe , and later also the H2S radar unit .
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Zentner : The Second World War - A Lexicon , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag , Munich 1995 / Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85492-540-9
- ^ Janusz Piekałkiewicz : Air War. 1939–1945 , Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-517-00605-X
- ^ Christian Zentner: The Second World War - A Lexicon , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1995 / Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85492-540-9
- ↑ Irmtraud Permooser: The aerial warfare over Munich 1942-1945. Bombs on the capital of the movement , Aviatic Verlag, Oberhaching 1997, ISBN 3-925505-37-7