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Old 7th Feb 2010, 13:45
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I don't remember the rest of the crew, but the Herc that was hit ended up at Gatow with a considerable fuel leak (from No1 tank I think).

The FE was Cliff Foggo and after shutdown, he was attempting to transfer fuel out of the tank as it was 'p*ssing out' - his words. I believe it was thought to be a single 7.62mm small arms round which manage to split some of the structural members in the base of the tank.

I remember flying the corridor on Dominies too and at the Int brief, there was an instruction to ignore some of the Nav Aids (based in E Germany) - I think Bruckendorf was one such, as the Soviets were meakoning.

Ah, those were the days . . . peace.

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