Danny & Fareastdriver
Re Confiscated cigarettes free for the troops.
I was in Rhodesia (5 FTS RAF Thornhill) 1951 - 1953 and certainly remember the free issue of customs confiscated cigarettes at Christmas. I wasn't a smoker at the time, but a DF Operator colleague did and he laid claim to as many Balkan Sobranie (Black Russian) cigarettes as he could get. Quite an exotic smell ISTR, not bad, but not good. Certainly in the confines of the VHF/DF Homer I assume the smoke and smell killed many pests lurking in the woodwork.