Did the RCAF have a Cold War presence in Europe?Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Old Man WES is ex-RCAF you see, SW. I grew up on air force bases.
Impossible for a young lad in such a position to not develop a love for fighter jets when your dad is flying them.
Being woken up at 3:30am as the Voodoos roared overhead in the latest pointless exercise
Germany - loads of them in Germany.
All RCAF offices got oversea postings and the overwhelming majority were to Germany. My father did something good at some point apparently and got 3 years at the Canadian embassy in London where, according to him, all he did was push some papers around and go to the pub with the American, British, South African and Australian embassy chaps.
His memory of that period extends as far as Saffies being nasty, Australians being misogynistic drunkards and British embassy chaps thinking that grabbing the bottoms of the female embassy staff was perfectly acceptable.
Safe to say, he enjoyed it.
I am not that fond of the US WW2 aircraft as they are all a bit too metallic looking for my liking.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...-released-iwm/
I'm pretty sure this is the picture that made me fall in love with it all those years ago.
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