Originally Posted by
goudie
Gutersloh had a fearsome reputation in the late fifties. At Wahn we heard tales of the ' Rocks' running riot in the local town and that discipline had broken down, in general. A replacement Staish was posted in who 'specialised in bringing ill- disciplined Stations to order. One of his measures was to put corporals in charge of sections of roads and if, on inspection, as much as a cigarette butt was found they were for the high jump!
I think the replacement Staish who sorted the 'Rocks' out was Group Captain MacFarlane who only stayed a year and was then replaced by Group Captain Peter Crabb ex Oldenburg and possibly Ahlhorn.
Crabbie as he was known had a very distinguishes WWII as a leader of Pathfinders among other things. At that time he had a penchant for doing some interesting things including shooting the lights out with his service revolver instead of turning them off by the switch. There are a host of other tails to tell about Crabbie from the war and whilst he was at Gut. Perhaps someone else can fill in the details. Whilst at Gut he continued to fly with the Hunter Wing but I am not aware as to whether or not he ever flew a Swift with 79.