Originally Posted by
Pontius Navigator
We liked Ballykelly. We had the only flushing toilets on the airfield. We knew when we had a 'scramble free' window when the train was due, but the hovercraft down the runway was unpredictable in all senses.
Then after a few beers in Limavardy, a steak butty in the mess, before a late night supper back at the dispersal.
Bomber Command crews were never underfed.
Flushing toilets were installed in airman's barracks by '63.
I know because I was sitting on one one day when one of my mates reached over from the next cubicle and pulled the chain!!