Exnomad wrote:-
"When Ships were sunk in the Falklands war, it was rumored that any missing stores were deemed to have sunk with them."
Goes back a long way - my father was on maintenance on a Beaufighter strike squadron out of the Shetlands in 1943/44. At one point they went 3 months without a loss (bad weather, luck, easy targets....) and the ground crews were getting frantic. Enventually one poor sod didn't make it back - not surprising as he was (according to the paperwork) carrying a load that would have troubled a C-47 - my father admitted to "loading" two sets of 8ft stair ladders for a start.......