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Old 3rd May 2015, 20:44
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Danny42C
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AtomKraft,

Vijayawada is a new one on me - the similarity between "VJ" (as in "VJ Day") seems to be a remarkable coincidence, but nothing more. At first I thought it was Vizag(apatam) we were talking about, and there may have been VVs there in the early days, when 84 (?) VV Sqdn were doing anti-submarine patrols from Madras. And of course at the end VVs were doing odd jobs all over the subcontinent. But the latitudes are different, Vijay must be at least 150 mi S of Vizag. Frankly, I never heard of the place - don't think the RAF/IAF used it at all.

If you can come across an overlooked VV nestling in some 'godown' now, you'll be lucky indeed. So lucky that you should have no trouble in pinpointing that hoard of buried Spitfires in Burma about which there was so much excitement a while back.

10/10 for maths !

Danny.