Norwich, Thank you sir,marvellous photograph.Formation is a bit ragged,but then we did not get much if any practice at all with formation flying.
I think it was mainly 88 and 209 Squadron aircraft,as 205 had three aircraft up at Iwakuni at that time.I looked it up in my old logbook and we did a three ship formation flypast over Kure,Hiroshima and Iwakuni on June 3rd 1953 to celebrate the Coronation. The resident VP Squadron covered our operational task that day,so we did a double flight the following day. My goodness doesnt time flyby!
As an afterthought.We had fifteen aircraft on the Wing.Three at Iwakuni.At least one away on SAR duty.one on Minor servicing in the hangar,so it would appear to be 100% serviceability,not bad!!