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Harrier Boys Volume One: Cold War through the Falklands, 1969-1990 (The Jet Age Series) by Bob Marston at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  1909808296 - ISBN 13:  9781909808294 - Grub Street Publishing - 2015 - Hardcover

From North Creake, No 199 and No 171 Squadrons of No 100 Group of RAF Bomber Command flew Stirling IIIs and Halifax IIIs on radio counter-measures intended to conceal the true position of the main Allied bomber thrust. They used airborne radio transmitters called Mandrel to jam German early-warning radar and dropped aluminium strips, known as Window to give false radar readings. RAF North Creake veteran Bernie How and Air Marshal (retd) Sir Stuart Atha KBE CB DSO at the memorial dedication cere...