Offensive Strike
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Offensive Strike
The squadrons were rotated frequently, you'd be at a base only
four or six weeks and you'd be rotated to relieve the ones that
were in action. We went down to a place called Martlesham Heath
on our first move from Digby, staged through our satellite base,
but then we ended up at a place called Martlesham Heath and my
biggest memory there was, well we were doing patrol work,
mainly, offensive patrol. This one day they had a at least eight
or ten squadrons accumulate around this base, there were eighty
some odd airplanes ringing the airfield, and the idea was to
really show power in an offensive strike. And I still remember
this day, it was in August, it was a dusty air field, (inaudible)
runways and control towers and there were Pole squadrons
and Czech squadrons and three or four RAF squadrons and so on,
we were all ring the field. They took that whole works off in
about twenty minutes. One squadron go this way, one would go this
way, one would go this way after, one this way, and they made
this big sweep with these airplanes, and the dust, and that dusty
airfield, was something to behold with all of these airplanes.
And I don't think it's settled yet actually.
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