Pontius Navigator,
A little Indian Ocean island that was used by the RAF during the war, and is now entirely forgotten, was Socotra.
Only reason I know about it was from a girl I met shortly after the war; she had (or said she had) been a WAAF Sgt storebasher out there, and had left in distressing circumstances (but we don't need to go into all that).
Where are you now, Miriam, and what happened to you after we parted ?
Ah, well. Danny.