Cyprus 1963, NEAF, and as a (then) service brat the Canberras sometimes kept us awake at night across the bay from Aki in Paramali.
I asked my Dad what the noise was and heard 'Cameras'.
Thinking I'd misheard, I asked what they were used for. 'To take photographs', he replied. So I hadn't misheard, or so I thought.
It took me several years to work out the aerodynamics of these cameras...