Pauline, The Guiness Girl Nose art - Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2B
The aircraft participated in "Operation Granby" (Gulf war)
RAF Museum London, Bomber Hall
For those in the UK, or with a VPN, this programme should be interesting....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004dxl
3 RAF aircrew shot down in GW1 share their experiences of captivity at the hands of the Eye-Rackis.
Well the handsome fella on the left is me and the guy to the right is Taff, he was our Artillery Command post driver (FV432) as part of 23 Battery, 2nd Field Regiment RA. Operation Granby.
I don't have that much hair now nor do I look that young sadly
An AVRE of the Royal Engineers blows up during the first Gulf War 1991 (Operation Granby)
I served with an Arty Regiment (2nd field RA) and I saw an avre burn and explode, not sure if it was this one though.
I am trying to find out the circumstances of the loss of three Centurion AVRE's during a two day period, in the build up to Granby. A question to the MOD under the freddom of information act has given some info but can anyone add to their reply
and a transcript because the electronic version...
British Artillery Regiment loading the M109 A2 self propelled guns onto low loading trucks in preparation for the push North to take on Saddam's Army in Kuwait 1991
This is me at Kuwait Airport 1991. It is one of the few photos I have of my time in the Gulf, I did not have a camera with me and the limited photos I do have were taken by buddies.
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