The cat!!!
The infamous black cat did die but it was flattened by a car not the engineer and co of CXX/7. When we got back to the mess there were chalk outlines around stains on the carpet and a cat shaped outline outside one of the window!! The RAF plods believed we (the crew) had sacrificially dispatched the cat.... Certain members of the crew were interviewed by the RAF plods, completely surreal. The story how the cat got into the mess was classic kipper fleet, when the Eng was asked how the Cat got on the base he said ' me and B--cy tabbed it over the wall' . was it dead?' yep, it was that stiff you could comb your hair with it' It ended up with the the Co getting moved off the crew the Eng getting a slapped wrist (and a cleaning bill), and 5 others including me getting interviewed and a warning. Memories are definitely made of this!!