i d only ever seen world war ii movies. i d never done any bombing like this before or been fired at. as we got closer and closer and closer, the bombs started to fall off and i was able, on a little gauge i had in front of me, to see when the last bomb had gone, and ijust had full power on and drew the aircraft into a hard climbing turn to get the hell out of there. the raids had been planned back in lincolnshire with only a couple of weeks notice. we had several problems, really. one was, where was the falklands? we never even heard of the falklands. we thought it might be somewhere near the faroes at the time. b- how on earth do we get there? navigation wise and fuel wise. and when we get there, what do we drop? nobody at waddington had ever dropped a 1,000lb bomb- from the vulcan, and nobody had done any air to air refuelling. it was a huge role change. they used an air base at ascension island as a staging post, using tanker planes to complete a complicated mid air refuelling pl
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to the battle of the bulge. when they first arrived at u.k. in 43, the unit took heavy losses. earned the monicker that has been passed down to this day the bloody 100th. so let me hear it for the 100th air refuelling wing known as the bloody 100th. [applause] what about 352nd special operations wing? [applause] team reconnaissance. members of the air mobility command. do we have any folks here from the 48th raf? [applause] i think maybe the 500 first combat support wing from raf. and this may be a historic first