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1. What is the best way to employ the B-17 and B-24 Pathfinder squadrons (812, 813, 814 BS)?
What benefit do you gain, and do they have to be placed in the lead position of a raid to get any benefit?

2. What is the best way to employ ECM Jamming aircraft? Do you intersperse them with raids and have them
arrive on target at a similar time to the main body? Do you just have them orbiting over radar sites that are
along the path you have mapped out?

Sorry, I'm just seeing this today.
The pathfinder groups are important early on in 1943 before all of the groups gradually get fitted with the HS2 device, then any group with HS2 can be a pathfinder really. But the real pathfinder groups do tend to have better morale and keep it during replacements.

H2S will get you to the target on cloudy days a lot more than nothing. GEE and Oboe are very similar in game terms, but the effective range is limited to the distance from home base.

With ECM it's both ways, really. Try a zig zag route around the target area to keep them on station with their jamming capabilities. You can also just "follow" a night raid in and out. Use multiples of them though, one or two isn't gonna cut it.