My father was a PR7 pilot with 17 Sqn Wildenrath in 1956/58 and again in 1962/64.
I was fairly young at the time and so many of the stories he told me have 'developed' each time I recounted them to my school friends at the time, so that now I am not sure what the original stories were. Unfortunately Dad died almost 15 years ago and with him went his memories.
Did such aircraft conduct
PR flights into (or just close to) East Geman airspace? Did they disperse to and operate from pre-prepared sections of autobahn during exercises? Is it true that they photographed Soviet ships during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Does anyone know of any accounts of squadron life during this era or is it too recent for memoires to be published? For me it was a magic time of my life and I was as proud as punch of my Dad. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a period about which much was written.