salad-dodger
Bore on, of course it did PN. First hand experience, or just more of the apocryphal tales you seem so full of?
PN may have been referring to this incident (as recounted on page 103 of Roland Beaumont and Arthur Reeds book "English Electric Canberra", (ISBN 0-7110-1343-8, published by Ian Allen Ltd, 1984) should you wish to check....)
"On the night of 31 October, a large force of Canberras and Valiants was airborne and en route for airfield targets, including Cairo West, when the British embassy in Cairo warned that the airfield was at that moment being used by 15 United States transport aircraft to evacuate US citizens. Radio messages via Cyprus to delete Cairo West from the list of targets reached the bomber force just before it entered Eqyptian airspace.
The action produced its other legends, including the Canberras on a raid which were given a 'fix' on their airfield target by an Egyptian air traffic controller who assumed he was talking to an inbound airliner."