Hello gents,

Indeed, as I understand, the kind of protection you mention would have been made up from different kind of missions, as Martin points out. Recently, I superficially delved into Serrate missions:

Serrate Patrol. These were Mosquito night fighters with the newly developed Serrate radar. The German Night fighters used the Liechtenstein radar to home in on British bombers. The Serrate radar was able to pick up the German radar from 100 miles distance. This gave the British a great advantage over the Germans. The mosquito would fly to a German operational/assembly area (box), where the German night fighters would wait until directed to a British bomber. Serrate patrols were meant to pre-empt the Germans, home in on them when they had their own radar systems on to track the bombers and shoot them down.

The first Serrate Mossie was lost on 22 Feb 1944 over Holland. It was flown by Australian P/O Desmond Snape of 141 Sqn.

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