Geriaviator
Thanks for your welcome to the thread and your memories of Aden, which I have read in the past year. I have been trying for some time to write up my father's WW2 experiences. It’s a case of .. why didn't you talk to him more when he was alive… I have many of the letters he wrote home from Aden 1942 - 1944 but of course the need to remove anything the censor would not like means they give little information. One question I do have was from another blog … a Catalina was droning over the harbour doing circuits and bumps. Where was the landing area ? in the inner harbour ? and was there a flying boat slipway on to RAF Khormaksar ? The Catalina was very important to my father, as he told me when I , age about 15, was making my Airfix model, "a Catalina saved my life", but he never wanted to talk about "his" war. Only now thanks to the internet have I got together the story. When I've written it up I hope to post it on PPRune.
FG