I was an Armament Electrician at Cottesmore between 1961 and 1964 and the dispersals at that time were Boscombe Down for 10 Sqn and St Mawgan for 15 Sqn and I went to both many times.
During the Cuban Crisis we were loading live weapons on any airframe that had wings and engines and prior to then we had only ever loaded live weapons to the QRA aircraft