Ian Semple as Navigation Officer had spent 
the last two weeks in draining the Station Navigation Section of maps, mainly million and four million scale and had even gone to Ford to try his luck there. So with great enthusiasm those worthies who were to fly out set to cutting, marking, pasting and generally defacing in order to have a comprehensive set. Most notable of these demi-
The second important thing to be attended to was packing. No one knew exactly just how much luggage each person was allowed by sea or air and consequently most of the packing was done at the last possible minute. Crates were obtained from stores and packed with personal and household goods, labelled and taken to stores where they were entrusted to the care of British Railways. The personal kit to go by air was collected from the gymnasium on Wednesday morning.
Disposal of cars was the final thing to be managed and most people managed to find buyers for their wheels or at least to have made some arrangements for their future care.
Good work was put in by Don Dewhurst on Monday and Tuesday when he successfully effected a mass clearance of all pilots from the Station. Anything that had to be kept until the last minute, inventories and the like were all handed over to Steve who was the Rear Party in its entirety and who was left holding a very valuable 'baby'.
The chaos on
Monday was made to seem very small when compared with the chaos on Tuesday when the packing continued and cleaning up was instituted and the crating of ground equipment completed ready to load on to the first 'B'heaverly'. The first B'heaverly arrived in the afternoon and was followed throughout the evening by a steady stream of its kind as Transport Command endeavoured by trial and error to have two serviceable monsters at Tangmere at the same time.
Old Man Ray missed most of the rush on Tuesday and Wednesday as he was attending a PC Board proving what a splendid officer he is -
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