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Biggin BoB Days, 1952 and 53, Korean War ongoing. US types on first public airing. All cameras (Brownie 127s) confiscated at gate.

Sculthorpe Armed Forces Day, May,1962. CND likely to picket, did so nearer London at Wethersfield. ak, prisoner-to-be, paused at Marham to gaze upon dispersed, white Valiants. His decrepit car was blocked by 2 MoD plod Land Rovers, ak and mate flung into cooler for 2 hours, incommunicado on straw mattresses, till local CID showed up. They had met my sort before, but camera and notebooks took awhile to come back.

Sovs did wish us harm and did work through evangels who thought they knew better than the rest of us: CND disrupted movement of Bombs from MU to Sqdn., and of GLCMs around Greenham Common, doing Sovs work for free. Quite right of the system to try to make life difficult for them all.