Switched to Vampires when the Squadron was called up as a fighter command squadron when Korea kicked off. Patrolling above Holland was one of its regular operations
This photo was taken just before my dad rejoined the RAF in 1951. He never got to Korea as a fighter command pilot, but he squeezed in three and half years in Malaya before he was parachuted into the underground cold war bunker at Patrington in 1959, along with Ginger Lacey and others who had fighter command experience, but deemed to old to fly.
After a couple of years he took a different view and spent the next twenty years with Marshalls at Shawbury.
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