Crater, '67.

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Steamer Point Aden
 

Photo taken about 1963




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Having experienced the Gulf and Aden in much more recent times, I am lapping up these old photos. My gratitude to all contributors.

233Sqn at Kamaran
 

Several trips here taking the AOC for a spot of fishing. Crew left with iron rations overnight in questionable accommodation.
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Crew accommodation Kamaran

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Mirror image. Finger trouble with the slide converter

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My Captain, John Williams. I slept out under the stars, luckily no mosquitos!

78 Squadron Twin Pioneers
 

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Twin Pins upcountry from Khormaksar. Can't remember where. Taken 1962/3. Possibly Ataq?

DeanoP:

Many thanks for your excellent Valetta shots. I particularly liked "Going Home". By the time I got to Khormaksar all the Valettas had gone. The only one I can remember seeing was the wreckage of VW817 at Firq which burst a tyre in 1959 (an 84 Squadron event I believe).

I did the Transport Command ground school at Thorney Island in June, 1962 and we had two chaps on the course who were destined for Valettas (Pearson and Mitchenson). They must have been about the last two to be headed in that direction?

DeanoP. That looks like "Oriana" at Steamer Point. I travelled back from Oz with her, transiting Aden 17th Jan '64. I was hoping to join HM's finest, but little thought that come May '67 I would be stationed at Khormaksar.

That looks like "Oriana" at Steamer Point.

Looks more like ARCADIA or IBERIA to me.:suspect:

Jack

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Here is 105 Squadron Argosy XP438 on one of my visits to Beihan.

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The entrance to the souq at Beihan.

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Hairdresser No.2 at Beihan. The barber's chair was the captain's seat from 30 Squadron Beverley XH118 which unfortunately crashed during a 2-engine landing at Beihan in 1958. (The siggie was killed but everyone else survived with minor injuries. The aircraft was written off).

Dean Op re "finger trouble with slide converter"

Dont worry, those of us who spent time in Aden got used to reading from right to left ;)

I served with a chap who had done a tour in Aden and claimed to have had missile go right through his flat. Luckily he and his wife were out shopping.

Terrific pics of Khormaksar and other places. Fortunately I only ever transited through the place.

We had a south facing flat on the western end of the Maalla Staight in 1964/66. RPG's fired from the hills to the south were a common occurrance, usually between 1700 and 1900, while we were enjoying a sundowner or two on our balconies. A Major and his wife in the flat two floors above us were enjoying a bit of rumpy pumpy when an RPG flew through their open patio door, shot through the wall in the lounge and into their bedoom, just missing the bed before exploding in the bathroom. It made a hell of a bang and, according to the frisky Major, caused the earth move! It was surprising how we got used to being fired at.

Was there any truth in the story of a Dak which was buzzed by a Yemeni Mig on its way to Kameran. When they asked for top cover for the return instead of the fighter escort a Shackleton turned up.








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JW411

Thanks for your kind comment about 'Going Home'. Aden looks quite attractive from afar!

You mentioned Mitchinson, well, he is the person reading his mail in post No 177. He was detached there as an Ops officer for a short time from 233Sqn. I served with him on 24Sqn Hastings after Valettas and I was Best Man at his wedding in 1966.

Unfortunately Mitch died at a young age in Gibraltar, I think he had a heart attack. Late 1970's if I remember correctly.

Downtown Aden
 

On my first visit to Aden (99sqn Hastings) in April 1958 the crew stayed in the Rock Hotel. I would imagine the locals wish the old times were back.

Taken from a balcony in the Rock Hotel
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Steamer Point
 

A close up of the BP Oil tanks visible in DeanoP's Steamer Point photo (182)

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Early morning Fanta delivery.
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Downwind, right hand, runway 08!
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