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Old 31st Dec 2016, 09:08
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orionsbelt
 
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As BE says the picture is fixed as one bomb was out of frame but 35 were droped.
In August 1964, 10/15 Sqdn with Victor B1a, Detached to RAAF Butterworth and 55 /57 Sqdn at RAF Tengha stood Dawn to Dusk QRA, loaded with 21 x 1000lb bombs with Radio fusing (PN (Roy) who came out in Nov 64 in the Vulcans that relieved us, can tell you more about the fusing and he has a paper recording the Vulcan involvement).
The Aeroplanes were fitted with a bomb-bay tank that took the first two bomb positions.
We dispersed 2 Bombers to Gan and 55 Sqdn sent up 2 to Butterworth.
For those don’t know the history see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indone..._confrontation
The Victor detachment from Cottismore and Honington had been ongoing since early 1963,
The Vulcans did not arrive until Nov 1964 when as such it was all over after political changes in Indonesia.
My 15 Sqdn detachment returned to the UK in Nov 64 however we left XA941 behind as it had a centre line closure on one of its stb engines, which were then being fixed by the MU. Meanwhile I was posted to Honington and was promptly returned to Butterworth on New Years day as part of the servicing crew to recover the aeroplane.
Happy days
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Edited to add comment about the http://www.finesthourwarbirds.co.uk/...ors-in-malaya/
This link is more concerned with the Tengha Operation. It was a Butterworth aeroplane that droped the first 35 bomb load sometime before May 1964. Additionally RAAF Butterworth on the mainland not on the island of Penang.

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