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Old 8th Mar 2015, 22:00
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herkman
 
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I had the joy

Of being the loadmaster on both the Norfolk Island and Nauru trips.

Seems like only yesterday, they were good days the like we are unlikely to see again.

Norfolk island gave us the best fishing I have ever seen, not helped by a nosey shark who wanted some of the action. Aircraft under the command of the late Air Commode David Hitchens who was I believe the CO of your 30 Squadron.

Nauru was a different story there was no proper airfield and in actual fact was the old WW2 Japanese field. We would have been light and the drivers seem to have little problem. Brian Warsap was the aircraft commander, we used to get the very best on exchange from the RAF.

All the best

Col
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