A recent find were these two large boxes, from the clearout of an old workshop, they had been nailed to a wall and used as shelves, marked up for a 5 inch rocket motor, one appears to be dated 1948 and the other 1952. The tin was also from the same workshop and was full of old nails.
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Interesting finds . . . . . looks like the sort of stuff you would see discarded as surplus by the U.S. Air Force operating out of an RAF/NATO air base there in England during the early stages of the Cold War.
My local Military History Club recently had a retired USAF general speak to us . . he was an F4 pilot stationed in England in the 1960's. His unit kept F4's loaded with B61 "dial-up" nuclear bombs at the ready, prepared to take off on very short notice. Our speaker indicated that his primary target was military airfields in East Germany . . . in the event of conflict he was to head to East Germany and (using the B61 in a "low yield" setting) attack the enemy air base. The speaker conceded that virtually all pilots in his unit were in agreement that any such mission would be a suicide mission and/or that there would be nothing left to return home to if you could make it home.
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