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Old 28th Jul 2013, 09:48
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On my course at Tern Hill Royal Air Force trainees were in the minority. We had:
7 RAF. (3 direct entries, 1 each remustered from signaller, engineer and admin plus one ex national service retread).
2 Lebanese Air Force.
2 Jordanian Air Force.
2 Iraqi Air Force.
4 Royal Malaysian Air Force.
8 Ghanaian Air Force.

Our Middle Eastern colleagues apparently had a bad time with the Israelis who also had a hand with the Ghanaians. They were initially trained by the Israelis using Hindustan basic trainers, known as the cast iron Chipmunk. Subsequently when Nkrumah fell from grace I believe that they were lined up a beach and shot.

Happily I met the Malaysians again later on in Borneo.
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