Adriano
Thanks so much for your comprehensive updates, likewise I would to address this topic with some deeper stuff I am right now working on, therefore and hopefully this weekend I will be able to revert to you with an update. In the mean time there are a few books I would recommend you as into special duty RAF Squadrons .
A Man Called Intrepid ,
A Life In Secrets by Vera Atkinks ,
Operative Spies & Saboteurs ,
From Hitler's Doorsteeps,Ops Autonomous .I am going to buy this book
too, in the meantime would appreciate updates from that book.
Also visit the site
http://www.paulmccuebooks.com/the-104-agents
Particularly I would like to get more details on the special duty sqd based at Tocra operating B-24's. On this respect I would like to cite several agent drop missions
from Lybia on October, November and December 1943 to Romania, Yugoslavia when IMC WX was encountered at night over the drop zones leading to miscalculations and wrongly chosen drop areas ultimately causing these missions to be a complete failure.
As into the Lysanders in my view they must have used some local radio stations as a QDM/ QDR aid eventually something similar to the Big Fence and some sort
of Radar vectoring to a specific fix or intersection beyond which radio silence was mandatory,the rest of the training is as you stated .Interesting that despite
Luftwaffe advanced technology very few Lysanders were intercepted by their night fighters , however due something called "funkspiel " they have deliberately
left some of these planes to land in order to have their "cargo" monitored in order to lead SD to rest of the infiltrated circles , groups and Resistance .
Mind asking what equipment were you type rated on ?
Larry ,
Thanks for your update , I was not aware about Rebecca Eureka nor that type of transponder, although there must have been a great risk involving the use of such beacons due to strong activities by the local German wireless detection mobile and stationary units some attached to SD and some to Luftwaffe in France
Best Regards
Alex K