After the “Atlantic Conveyor” sank, during the Falklands War, it was calculated that considering all the stores subsequently written off as on board the ship at the time, it would probably have gone down in the harbour where it was all allegedly first loaded.
Later, back in W. Germany, we couldn’t get any replacement aircrew clothing for a long time afterwards because apparently it had all gone to the sea bottom. Then some “war stock” was found. I was issued with some (rather yellowed
) aircrew long johns and long sleeved vests with labels bearing the old WD arrows and the year 1941! How we all loved those hardened rubber buttons on the flies that were too big to go through the button holes….
