I'm scanning aircraft photos I took at Changi in the early 60s and 205's Shackltons feature quite heavily.
Are there any aircrew from that time lurking here? I would like to produce an article for an aviation magazine and wonder if anyone has any stories to share.
I was a teenager then and my only contact with the sqn was a family friend, Arthur Greenacre, a flight engineer. I remember he was always deafened for days afterwards on returning from the Gan detachment.
I do remember that Arthur had been ground crew in WW2 and wangled himself on a mission.
Alas he was shot down and became a 'kriege'. On return, all his records were lost ...so he had suddenly become 'aircrew' from then on.
Here's some pics to jog memories.
205 Sqn line up on their 'eastern dispersal' in 1962.
MR1A's on the PSP side of the pan in 1961.
A 2C doing bombing practice at a target towed behind the Seletar Air sea Rescue launch 2755 in 1963.