Courtesy Google earth, here is
Khormaksar as it is this year. The runway 08-26 runs above the top edge of the picture but the hangars and RAF buildings look to be in ruins. The three barrack blocks are quite distinctive and the east half of the lower one has been demolished. In the early 1950s roads and I think the runway were packed gypsum.
These AMQ semis with their cool verandahs front and rear and kitchen built onto one end seem to be little changed, and the Patch road layout is unchanged although buildings cover what I remember as acres of desert. The Families' Club is now a supermarket, across the Sheikothman Road are more married quarters but I can't remember their layout and even the former Aden Protectorate Levy lines have been redeveloped.
I'm quite pleased to find that 167W, our house in the corner of the Patch is still standing almost 70 years since I first saw it. I wonder if anyone remembers our Brigand pilot neighbour F/Sgt Cramp in 167E?
