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Old 26th May 2008, 18:29
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I would agree - RAF Trincomalee. Right road layout, accommodation blocks and hangars (except the left hand one which appears, on Google Earth, to have been demolished). There's what looks like a Bristol Freighter bottom left - could the RNZAF have reached there from Malaya? Perhaps not; perhaps it's a Valetta. Strangest thing comes to mind - some 25 years ago I lived in a town in Oxfordshire next door to an old chap who had been Orderly Room Corporal for a flying boat squadron based at Trincomalee during WWII. He remembered drafting the CO's letters of condolence to the families of a 'boat crew lost over the Indian Ocean between Malaya and Ceylon. Then he found, at a squadron reunion, that the Flight Engineer's son lived just round the corner from us .......
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