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The book 'In Cobhams' Company' covers the period.
I can echo the 'he was a great chap' sentiments. In 1961 he address the assembled personnel of 214 Sqdn when he presented us with a silver trophy to commemorate the Sqdns efforts to re-fuel the Vulcan that did the 1st none stop flight from UK to Australia.
He'd presented a similar trophy to 617 Sqdn, who supplied the crew of the Vulcan, the previous week. He got a resounding response when he said words to the effect, 'But we know who did all of the real work, don't we?'
We had the Sqdn spread a bit thin to base tanker a/c in Cyprus, Karachi and Singapore. Me, as usual I was in Karachi, one of my 5 visits to that little piece of paradise.
