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Old 17th Mar 2013, 20:06
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JW411
 
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Definitely Muharraq; the Argosy could be 105 Sqn. We didn't disband until 31 March 1968 when we became Ardet (and I did no less than FIVE of those).

The Belfast looks as if it is going to tip on its a*se and I would have thought the 8/208 Hunter should have been a bit further to the right.

Incidentally, we had 8 Sqn and 43 Sqn (and 1417 Flight) in Khormaksar before we moved. It was decided that one Hunter squadron was to move to Bahrain and it would have been just as easy to have sent 43 Sqn.

However, some comedian decided to send 8 Sqn to join 208 Sqn who were already there. So, we had 8 and Naval 8 on the same unit. Naval 8 were actually senior but 8 did not like that and the conflict caused loss of sleep from time to time for those of us who had to fly 24/7.
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