John
It’s understood that the Vs were loaded, what Ken is saying is that we didn’t fly with a “live” weapons (unlike the US and the French). Tend to agree as well. If a live-loaded airframe did actually get into the air in those days (especially in RAFG) it meant the end was nigh. The next thing we would do would be to collect the famlies from MQ and head for Ostend in convoys of 3-tonners.

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