Stinger mission marks at Mildenhall

A RARE visitor to RAF Mildenhall, AC-130W Stinger II 88-1305 of the 16th Special Operations Squadron, part of the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, departed the Suffolk base on December 7, as ‘RCH1040’. The gunship was part of a flight of two together with 88-1301 ‘RCH1042’. Serial 88-1305 displayed ten mission markings in the form of stick men. The pair arrived from Sigonella, Sicily on December 6 and departed to Keflavík, Iceland. Chris Lofting