ICM, I think the nonsense really set in with the one-Taceval scenario fits all.
Would St Mawgan have faced the same threat as Kinloss?
Why try and fight a war at Lossie with the Jag OCU, the Strike Buccaneers and the AEW Shacks? What a target rich environment. I suspect that come high tension other airfields would have been pressed in to use.
Wittering was another nonsense as all the aircraft would have deployed to Germany leaving an unmanned and virtually indefensible airfield.
Finningley etc, better to muster all the trainees, categorise them for usefulness and despatch them (for real or on paper) as pick axe handlers or guard commanders or wherever their skills (
) might have been useful. Instead we have a surfeit of personnel who would congregate in the bombproof Seco hut coffee bar as 'all training ceases' in accordance with the war book.