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Supporting bombers cannot be attached to these lead formations

These are odd ducks indeed. Defenseless mossies with oboe's in No.2 Group RAF. Not sure what the intent here was.

I have been looking for any historical record of those detachments and can't find any reference to them, in the history of 2 or 8 group or in the squadron histories themselves. So I am going to remove them, but that won't show up until the next patch, not the forthcoming 1.04.

Oddballs indeed - maybe intended to lead daylight raids with 3 Group? - though I thought they used Gee-H anyway...

a long-standing issue it seems:
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interesting read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_(RAF)

ORIGINAL: Johntxic

Supporting bombers cannot be attached to these lead formations

They will, but you need to have level-bomber mosquito versions assigned to daylight squadrons first.
The Bostons and Mitchells in the rest of 2 Group are not nearly fast enough to keep up,
and the fighter-bomber mosquitos do their own thing. Try to do some upgrades; the mosquito's high speed
is arguably a better defense than the aenemic defensive armament of the American medium bombers anyway. Then,
you can use these daylight pathfinder units to bomb through overcast, etc.

Also, I've used these pathfinder units by themselves as a hit-and-run anti-radar squad. They have enough
combined bombload to take out a radar site at least, and the precision to pull it off often enough.

I recomment that they be kept in the OOB.