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crossed by sea to Naples, then was set up briefly in the
Apennines before the unit was called home. Later, in 1944 an 80 Wing unit landed in Normandy a week or more after D-Day and followed the successful invasion force through Northern France into Belgium. Their mission then was to establish radio frequencies it was thought being used to guide German V Flying Bombs and to destroy the signals -- one of various efforts made at the time to counter the V missiles used against Britain and later against targets in France and Belgium.()
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was indeed using the new technique. Unfortunately, the designers of the listening receivers had overlooked the fact that supersonic reception involves a wider bandwidth than normal in the high frequency circuits of the receivers. Once this was corrected, 80 Wing was able to jam the beam so
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A scoreboard listing the claims for aircraft destroyed by No. 80 Wing between July and
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History of the Second World War, United
Kingdom Military Series: The Defence of the United Kingdom
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was forced to redeploy hundreds of guns to cover potential
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Most Secret War: British
Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945
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The wing specialised in large-scale raids against German
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1957
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Wings of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War
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756:Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation.
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526:Air Ministry, 1938, "80 Wing R.A.F.",
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406:with a new supersonic
304:'s operations room at
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632:Routledge, pp. 402–3.
429:Anti-Aircraft Command
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75:Air superiority (WWI)
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1072:List of RAF missiles
1055:List of RAF aircraft
973:RAF Medical Services
958:RAF Chaplains Branch
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642:Collier, Chapter XX.
581:Collier, Chapter IX.
444:No. 109 Squadron RAF
361:' (to deal with the
276:In June 1940, a RAF
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1362:Aviation portal
1233:RAF Benevolent Fund
1168:symbols and uniform
801:Ministry of Defence
695:Jonathan Falconer,
603:Jones, pp. 186–238.
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302:RAF Fighter Command
163:Battle of the Beams
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