Golf, George, Gravy or what????
I apologise for intruding upon this wonderful Military forum, but I hope there might be some veteran readers who can throw light on the following.
Can anyone help? I am writing something about an aircraft built in 1937-38, but how would its identifying registration have been spoken using the phonetic alphabet of the period? If, for example, its registration was 'G-ABGG' would it then have been ID'd as:
'Golf - Alpha - Golf - Golf'?
Or would it perhaps have been uttered:
'George - Alpha - George - George'?
Or wot???? The reason I ask is that it appears the original WW1-era phoentic alphabet used 'Gallipoli' for 'G' - and the NATO alphabet using 'Golf' was not current until 1951. Yet we hear so much of wartime 'G-for-George'.
I have also placed this conundrum on the PPrune Historic Forum. As I say, sorry to take up some of your electrons here, but can anyone definitively put me right????