..then try, try, and try again! Great to see you back in business Danny, and well done to your daughter and FED for coming up with the DS solution. Hopefully you will soon be able to resume normal operations when the gremlins have had enough fun.
Suddenly we are back on the offensive with close air support to an Army that targets everything via "Bushy Topped trees, etc". You say that they soon cottoned on to your needs, but how was that done? Were they briefed by radio to put down the smoke bombs in the way you describe? Did they all have such radios? In these days of FACs talking direct with, and calling in, the Air Support as required, we have to remember that comms were in a different league then.
Forward troops come up against a Japanese strong point that they need help with to dislodge. So they radio back for it to be bombed, that is passed onto your Army Liaison Officer who then briefs you and agrees the timing. That is then passed back to the forward commander who ensures that his mortar crews are prepared with their smoke bombs to coincide with your arrival. Something or nothing like that?
Your Kiwi sounds formidable indeed and should perhaps have earned not so much just a mention in the Unit Roll, but recognition of his efforts above and beyond the call of duty.
Oh, just remembered, re my query on the ground move of the Squadron, I should have realised that it would be done via the Indian Railways, a vast concern that outnumbered the Army I believe, and the only way to move around the sub-continent, unless by air of course!