RAF tactical nuclear missions
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I remember a Micky Finn at Waddo. In the build up to the afterwards, the noise of bombers receding in the distance the Bomber Control handed over to the Bomber Fallout Controller.
In dead pan tones the bomber box spoke:
"Bomb Number One, Waddington, High Air Burst, 5 Mt 1012Z
Bomb Number two . . . "
Some short while later they rang up the GDOC. "Why aren't you reporting the fallout readings?"
To which Keith Batt, later Gp Capt, said "Didn't you plot Bomber No 1? We're dead."
"Don't be a fool Batt, plot the fallout."
PS, I fear we are drifting away from tactical nukes as in the OP.
In dead pan tones the bomber box spoke:
"Bomb Number One, Waddington, High Air Burst, 5 Mt 1012Z
Bomb Number two . . . "
Some short while later they rang up the GDOC. "Why aren't you reporting the fallout readings?"
To which Keith Batt, later Gp Capt, said "Didn't you plot Bomber No 1? We're dead."
"Don't be a fool Batt, plot the fallout."
PS, I fear we are drifting away from tactical nukes as in the OP.
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I don't mind telling you that my 2 engined wonder jet had to go so far east that there were words on the map on the return leg that said 'EJECT NOW'!
I joke not!
Now then Gainesy, since Jindabyne
has cross-referred another of my comments on one of these thread things:
Just when and why were you chopped from the Bucc on 237 OCU?!
Foldie
I joke not!
Now then Gainesy, since Jindabyne
Naughty boy! Methinks foldie might be spot on ----
Are they going to kick the Bucc out?
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At a recent gathering, I discovered that my grandson's fellow grandparents lived very adjacent to my intended target - we were all thankful!!
BTW,
BTW,
Just when and why were you chopped from the Bucc on 237 OCU?!
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jindabyne, I think we all were.
Read Neville Shute's 'On the beach' for a real cold reality check.
Read Neville Shute's 'On the beach' for a real cold reality check.
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Jinda, you didn't have to be aircrew to be at Honington, I was in ground radar, specialising in kicking the pre-historic PAR into some semblence of life, in between fairly regular visits to Colt to borrow spares for said piece of junk, which for some reason were almost always nil-stock at Hon.
The morale black hole at Honington wasn't confined to 237 BTW, I think it was something in the wallpaper paste, or the water.
I was in ground radar, specialising in kicking the pre-historic PAR into some semblence of life, in between fairly regular visits to Colt to borrow spares for said piece of junk, which for some reason were almost always nil-stock at Hon.The morale black hole at Honington wasn't confined to 237 BTW, I think it was something in the wallpaper paste, or the water.
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Gainesy
Are you trying to infer that the protect and survive films were not very good?
Do you really think that after a full nuclear exchange, with millions dead, that I would actually have needed MORE than 14 days worth of food and water*?
*this was needed to keep me supplied until the shops re opened as usual
Although I can see the logic in injured survivors being treated with a 9mm injection, I am more appalled at other post strike plans. The nearest regional government bunker (3 miles away from my house (oops did someone say target)), had the important task of re starting tax collections as soon as it could be operational, after a devastating exchange!
Are you trying to infer that the protect and survive films were not very good?
Do you really think that after a full nuclear exchange, with millions dead, that I would actually have needed MORE than 14 days worth of food and water*?
*this was needed to keep me supplied until the shops re opened as usual
Although I can see the logic in injured survivors being treated with a 9mm injection, I am more appalled at other post strike plans. The nearest regional government bunker (3 miles away from my house (oops did someone say target
)), had the important task of re starting tax collections as soon as it could be operational, after a devastating exchange!
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The nearest regional government bunker (3 miles away from my house (oops did someone say target
)), had the important task of re starting tax collections as soon as it could be operational, after a devastating exchange!
Ever see "The Bed-sitting Room?"
)), had the important task of re starting tax collections as soon as it could be operational, after a devastating exchange!Ever see "The Bed-sitting Room?"
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"A little deaf in one ear"
It seems almost improper to suggest that fortune was smiling on Tsutomu Yamaguchi in the dying days of the second world war.
On 6 August 1945, he was in Hiroshima, preparing to return home from a business trip when the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Yamaguchi lived, while 140,000 other people who were in the city that morning died, some in an agonising instant, others many months later.
Burned and barely able to comprehend what had happened - only that he had witnessed a bomb unlike any used before - Yamaguchi spent a fitful night in an air raid shelter before returning home the following day.
That home, 180 miles to the west, was Nagasaki. His arrival came the day before it was devastated by a second US atomic bomb on 9 August.
In a barely conceivable course of events, he had twice been perilously close to nuclear ground zero; and both times he had lived. More than 70,000 other residents of Nagasaki were not so lucky.
More than 60 years later, the 93-year-old became the first and only known survivor of both attacks yesterday to win official recognition from Japanese authorities.
While other survivors died prematurely from cancer and liver disease caused by their exposure to radiation, Yamaguchi remains in relatively good health apart from near-deafness in one ear and complaints that his legs are "growing weak
On 6 August 1945, he was in Hiroshima, preparing to return home from a business trip when the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Yamaguchi lived, while 140,000 other people who were in the city that morning died, some in an agonising instant, others many months later.
Burned and barely able to comprehend what had happened - only that he had witnessed a bomb unlike any used before - Yamaguchi spent a fitful night in an air raid shelter before returning home the following day.
That home, 180 miles to the west, was Nagasaki. His arrival came the day before it was devastated by a second US atomic bomb on 9 August.
In a barely conceivable course of events, he had twice been perilously close to nuclear ground zero; and both times he had lived. More than 70,000 other residents of Nagasaki were not so lucky.
More than 60 years later, the 93-year-old became the first and only known survivor of both attacks yesterday to win official recognition from Japanese authorities.
While other survivors died prematurely from cancer and liver disease caused by their exposure to radiation, Yamaguchi remains in relatively good health apart from near-deafness in one ear and complaints that his legs are "growing weak
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Are you trying to infer that the protect and survive films were not very good?
I was single at the time but I think the Mrs would be a tad annoyed if I unscrewed all the doors and stacked them in the bath or whatever daftness they promoted.
Twas a plot anyhow, pages from the Sun or Mirror were not big enough to cover the proles' windows, so that lot were doomed for a start.
Did old "Glowy" Yamaguchi
ever win the Japanese Lottery?
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Gainesy, you bring to mind the paper sandbags. Every window 'reinforced' but no thought to actually stocking the thousands of bags nor sourcing the sand.
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Or whatever was deemed the required quantity of war reserve foods.
Remember periodic turnover of the war stocks? I remember the steak and kidney pudding served in the mess at ISK. The suet was tin shaped and imprinted with the date etc. They served it straight from the tin - no disguises.
Or the scrambled 'egg'. As far as I know they didn't serve compo fried eggs.
Remember periodic turnover of the war stocks? I remember the steak and kidney pudding served in the mess at ISK. The suet was tin shaped and imprinted with the date etc. They served it straight from the tin - no disguises.
Or the scrambled 'egg'. As far as I know they didn't serve compo fried eggs.
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Would wearing the suet from said puds come under NBC or get you a free bouncy room at Nocton Hall or someplace similar? Stuff certainly looked nuke-proof.
Hmm, where did the nutters get sent? Apart from St Athan where they'd easily blend in.
Hmm, where did the nutters get sent? Apart from St Athan where they'd easily blend in.
