Read the forum code of contact
By: - 14th November 2010 at 21:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
That picture of the Vulcan shadow being cast over 'Lady Be Good' is a classic!
By: - 20th November 2010 at 15:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
El Adem in the 50s
Hi Nitro
You stirred a memory.
I flew into El Adem in Sept. 1957 to repair a stranded Canberra B2 I was a cpl elect fitter. During my 3 day stay I visited Tobruk which in those days was much as Rommel had left it! I srolled through the sand dunes to a lovely beach for a swim only to find that I had walked through an uncleared WW2 minefield. I was rescued by an army bomb disposal landrover. Happy days.
Paddy R
By: - 20th November 2010 at 18:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
We had a civilian Forecaster posted into the Met Office at El Adem in the early 50's. He used to like to go for long walks in the "bundoo" on his afternoons off. He came back one day and said "I found this white line painted on the desert - what does it mean?". "Ah," we said, "did you cross this line at right angles, or did you walk along it?". "No", he said, "I crossed it". "In which case" we said, "you either went out of a cleared area into a minefield, or went out of a minefield into a cleared area"!!!
The word was, in them days, "Find a white painted line and then walk along it.".
Different world!
HTH
Resmoroh
By: - 20th November 2010 at 19:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thinking about 'lines in the sand', I remember from the early '50s, that when flying in to El Adem from Egypt one could see a rusty line across the desert. This was from the barbed wire barrier erected during the war at the Libyan/Egyptian frontier.
By: - 20th November 2010 at 21:31 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
My first week at El Adem was an lnduction Course including what NOT to do, this included not going off the desert roads by more than 100 yds as you were likely to step on a mine. There were minefield maps but they were not very accurate, so l never went off the desert roads.
After severe sandstorms which exposed the minefields, Libyans would collect mines, put them on board their rowing boats and go out into Tobruk harbour. They would throw the mines into the water & if they exploded the dead fish would float to the surface.
One day two Arab children had picked up a German S-mine, they took it to Tobruk beach & tried to throw it into the water. Tragically the mine detonated before it reached the water & decapitated them both.
By: - 20th November 2010 at 21:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Here's two links to RAF El Adem/Tobruk
RAF El Adem/Tobruk Libya http://rides.webshots.com/album/44534383ludfbm?start=0
El Adem + Tobruk Reminisce
http://www.don-simmonds.co.uk/reminisce.htm
By: - 21st November 2010 at 19:03 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Here's some more photos of El Adem + some of mine including the Station Crest http://www.google.com/images?q=el+adem+libya&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=li
By: - 21st November 2010 at 19:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Father dropped by El Adem in 1943 on his way to Blida with 36 squadron
By: - 21st November 2010 at 21:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
This photo shows the slipway & German WWII Cemetery at Tobruk in 1966. l've got lots of photos on slides but l can't afford to get them converted.
By: - 21st November 2010 at 22:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
l've got lots of photos on slides but l can't afford to get them converted.[/QUOTE]
I think it possible to buy an adaptor to fit a scanner for scanning in slide images so that you can process them yourself or take them for printing.
I used to see a few for sale on Ebay so maybe they are still available.
best regards
By: - 22nd November 2010 at 20:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
l've got lots of photos on slides but l can't afford to get them converted.
I think it possible to buy an adaptor to fit a scanner for scanning in slide images so that you can process them yourself or take them for printing.
I used to see a few for sale on Ebay so maybe they are still available.
best regards[/QUOTE]
l've tried three scanners in stores & none of them work, so l'll get them done at Jessops.
Posts: 129
By: nitromaniac - 14th November 2010 at 21:05 - Edited 2nd October 2019 at 11:40
l was serving as a Medic at RAF El Adem, Libya from 1965 till 1967. On my return to the UK I wrote to the RAF Museum Hendon for some info about the station. They kindly sent this info