208 were on a live FAC exercise on Masirah, great fun: live SNEB rockets and cannon against old vehicles.
The problem with firing weapons near friendly forces, then as now, was identifying which particular vehicle was the target. In those days we practised a low-
It was a good test of our abilities, very satisfying to get it right.
The SS World Jury ran aground in August 1961, and the crew survived, unlike 21 of the crew of the grounded SS Baron Innerdale, who were killed by the residents of Masirah in 1904.
Back to the painting, my future wife
and I had at that stage no thoughts about marriage, so she kindly wrote on the back of it for me, before she presented it to me.
"Explain that to your next girlfriend," she said, with some glee.
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Hunter over Masirah 02
