Don't think that Linton and Acklington overlapped, not Linton (RAF) rather than Linton (FAA).
SORF was indeed at Manby as was the
College of
Air
Warfare, hence the Ma
caws for the JP team. But it's all a very long time ago, and as I heard a retiring senior officer say at at Dining-in-Night once:
The older you get, the more clearly you remember things that never happened!