Similar at Bruggen, we often thought the exercise decontam phase of returning jets was a pointless exercise as nothing wouid be left. The Station would have been gone, or there would be nothing to return.

In the early '60s we were given the telephone numbers of the Air Attaches so we could get further orders - a new bomb and new target perhaps.

Post-strike we had to broadcast our strikerep and log all those we received. 543 had the job of overflying the targets. Who were they kidding?

On a similar thread a few years ago, several owned up to having a 'bolthole' earmarked in case on RTB all main bases were radioactive smoking holes - an 'On the Beach' location. Mine was Akureyri in Iceland.

I used to order stacks of approach plates, not for the procedures I hasten to add. Some were disinformation to hide the real ones. AIDU duly produced plates for northern Sweden. Years later they did a trawl to find out who wanted them. Production was cut to save money.

Later some of our boltholes were sunny or sh1te, if you get my meaning. We had goolie chits bug no gold sovereigns.

Re. the near-4K paperback - the hefty price tag is a common error due to the seller using some sort of automatic listing software rather than having input the individual price themselves, some of them generate prices automatically using 'metrics' (bah, business speak) which occasionally go awry.