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Mike Wood
Roybo;
Spot on. I was the nav on that last trip. Thanks for crediting with a 'bull's eye' even though there were no figures in MOTS PT 2 for calculating the release point for a SD hat! I remember logging the position.
The dispatched hat was the only one Mike had (it was a real route hat - the Gestapo would have been proud of it) so he had to borrow a rather ill-fitting one for the farewell interview with the boss.
As an aside, it wasn't a 'recce' flight. We were on cod War ops and located the Icelandic gun boat, the Odin, which had been harassing out fishing fleet. The kipper fleet guy on board took an official photo from the para door. I have a copy and it has 'Flt Lt Wood 47 Sqn' printed at the bottom in true kipper fleet style. Not bad for a truckie Sqn! Quite proud that the Ecko 290 weather radar located a ship.
RIP Mike
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