122 Wing Pictures Click Year to Jump to First Picture for that Year 1945     1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961           2008   2012 1945 Two busts of unknown people.   The inscription reads: "PRESENTED TO CFE BY 122 WING 83 GROUP FASSBERG GERMANY MAY1945".   Does anyone know who they are and why the presentations were made? - 1945. 1953 Station Sick Quarters, Christmas Party - 1953.   Anyone able to recognise any names? The "Red Lion" in the Ward at the Station Sick Quarters, Christmas Party - 1953. Ken Oxley, Fg Off Tidy, Junior Medical Officer and Brian Hunt at the Station Sick Quarters, Christmas Party - 1953. Corporals' Club Christmas Party - 1953.   Anyone recognise names? Station Sick Quarters Christmas Party - 1953.   Geoff Flanders, Ken Oxley and Brian Hunt. Airmens' Mess Lunch Christmas - 1953. Corporals' Club Christmas Party - 1953. L to R: Sqn Ldr Stratford, OD Padre, Unknown, Unknown, Cpl. Geordie Gibson. Station Sick Quarters Christmas Party - 1953.   Sqn. Ldr. Ritchie Senior Medical Officer on piano. The Inglenook - Station Sick Quarters Christmas Party - 1953.   Geoff Flanders and Brian Hunt. Ken Oxley, designer of the Red Lion - Station Sick Quarters Christmas Party - 1953. Raising the Flag on the Jever Coronation Parade for Queen Elizabeth II on 2nd June 1953.   Eric Bowen is the nearest officer in the line at the rear   Anyone supply more names? 3 Unknowns in front of the Sick Quarters Ambulance - about 1953. Group in front of the Station Sick Quarters - about 1953.   Anyone able to supply names? Enjoying a celebration lunch on the day No 4 Sqn received its Standard from Sir John Slessor - 20Nov53.   Eric Bowen 3rd from right on other side of the table. 1954 View from George's room in Flying Wing HQ, down the road on the left the end of the riding stables can be seen and just out of sight on the left was a small brick building that was the hydrogen store for the Met balloons. Similar view to the previous picture taken from the Signals Section quarters in the ATC/Flying Wing HQ Building, but with snow on the ground - about 1954. Gordon Atkins (Ground Wireless Mechanic) and Jock McGarrity, an MT driver - Feb54.   Gordon was (and may still be) an active amateur radio enthusiast.   His UK callsign is G3HQG and he had a German callsign DL2VS that he used from Jever.   We shared a room at Jever and Gordon's knowledge and enthusiasm went a long way to increasing my knowledge of radio.   McGarrity was a drinking mate.   I remember very little about him except that I found out years later he had a brother serving in the RAF in Ceylon at the time. Billet DIY Entertainment.   Playing cards in the evenings was fairly common especially on dark nights.   Pontoon was probably the most popular game and cigarettes were the betting currency.   I didn't smoke so I didn't play. More cards in the billet.   Anyone add any names? - Feb54. Jock McGarrity in the driving seat of the Co's car.   An Opel Kapitan which all assumed had been handed over when the war ended - Feb54. Dave Lewington - I think Dave was An Air Wireless Mechanic (AWM).   He probably came from Oxfordshire and always gave me the impression that after demob he would become An insurance agent or a second-hand car dealer - Feb54. Frozen Lakes.   There was a line of lakes in a posher central residential area of Jever town.   It seemed to be permanently frozen in the winter and here you see locals ice-skating.   There were two long narrow lakes, one partly skirting the Schloss and the other a couple of hundred yards to the east - Feb54. Here we are out on a lake in the middle of the forest that goes round from the south to the east of the airfield and not far from the building where the VHF receivers were kept.   As we were only about 8 feet above sea level the underlying soil was sand and the water table sinks in the winter when the surface is frozen causing the ice to crack around the edge of the lake and collapse back into the water.   YoursTruly On Ice.   This is me trying to maintain equilibrium.   The lake must have formed at the bottom of a quarry as you can see that the sides are about 20 feet high and we are probably below sea level here! - Feb54. Sid Loosely on the same occasion as the previous photo.   Sid was a Londoner, probably from Sydenham way.   Here you can see that the ice thickness is about the same a Sid's shoe - almost a foot. - Feb54. Assault Course - Feb54.   At some time previously the detachment of RAF Regiment (Rockapes) that we had at Jever, built an assault course.   Sid Loosely watches Rip Kirby on what remained of the rope bridge. Hart on the Assault Course rope bridge - Feb54. Rip Kirby and Dave James at the transmitting station.   In those days any chap with the surname Kirby was called 'Rip' after the newspaper cartoon strip character.   He was a GWM and always looked happy.   This may have been because he had met a generous German girl.   He seemed to know a lot of Spanish but I knew no Spanish at that time I don't know if he was fluent.   I know very little about Dave James except he was either a telephone operator or a direction finder operator working on the station 'homer' - Feb54. This is Dick Endecott at the transmitting station wearing a rather vague interpretation of RAF uniform.   All transmitters but the low-power local airfield (Channel E on aircraft) and the radio-compass beacon were fitted inside large lorries so the building consisted mainly of two large garages with a workshop, office, boiler room, store and toilet - Feb54. Winter wonderland - taken a short distance from the forest edge - Mar54. This was taken in the central square of Jever Town - about Mar54.   L to R: Jock McGarrity, Gordon Atkins MT driver, Wilding (GWM) and Tony Hallam supervisor of the telephone exchange. Dave Hiscock (AWM) - Apr54.   To us the local German architecture was strange and Jever had been spared from damage by the war.   I don't know what the building was as I now haven?t a clue what 'Ausschank' means but it was fairly close to the town centre.   [Web master adds: This is the pub 'Haus de Getreuen' which belonged to the Jever Brewery but was famous in its own right.   It is famous for its Bismarck room where the elder statesman used to enjoy the hospitality.   Click to see a shot of it today.   The three trees look healthy in the summer.]   Dave was probably one of the more intelligent young men.   He came from Hatfield and after demob worked for the BBC at Droitwich.   I met him at IBM near Winchester about 35 years ago so he must have eventually moved into computers. Jock Nicol - Apr54.   Another in-billet picture.   I think Jock may have been a direction-finder operator. BrianAppleby(AWM) - Apr54.   Brian was a quiet young man who probably lived for demob.   You can see here that I was trying unsuccessfully to do a bit of portrait photography. Gordon Atkins May54.   Gordon at his amateur rig.   We had our billet on the top floor of tech wing billet block and had a long-wire aerial rigged between the roofs of the two blocks, which faced each other with a garden in between.   The box on the right contained both transmitter and receiver made from mainly WD surplus parts bought on leave in Sheffield market.   The transmitter power was about 20 watts and this allowed him to make contacts all over Europe on the amateur 80 metre band (3.5 - 3.8MHz). NAAFI activities about May 54 - Dave Lewington buys a cuppa.   The NAAFI girls are Barbara and Lizabeth but the main point of including this picture is to show the price list for food (all in UK currency).   The most popular meal by far was egg, double chips and beans at 1s/4d (6-1/2p). Ron Williams (GWM).   Ron came from somewhere up north, probably Lancashire.   A quiet type who probably counted the days to demob. Jever Town had a nice large central square not far from the Schloss - Mar54.   There was a regular frequent bus service from camp into the town and many of us relieved our boredom on a Saturday afternoon by going window shopping.   Prices were generally cheaper than the UK because the exchange rate was set very favourably for us and we bought Deutchmarks at 12 to the £.   Our group here are (l to r) Atkins, Simmonds, Chilcott, McGarrity, James, Plumley, Appleby and Kirby. Bull Night - Mar54.   We were supposed to clean up our rooms once a week and here is Dave Hiscock doing his bit.   I think it was on Friday nights because if anyone was going to inspect us it would be on a Saturday morning after approximately monthly parades.   People on essential duties were able to avoid parades so I don't remember going on very many.   If we couldn't have the airfield open on Saturday morning then we found some essential maintenance to do.   [I was going to try to clean up the cobwebs around Dave's feet, but after reading Dick's explanation I decided they probably really were cobwebs!] Jock Hastie - Apr54.   I guess that when this picture was taken we were over-staffed.   Our signals complement had a number of morse wireless operators who worked from an office in station headquarters.   There was normally no wireless operating to do and I think they spent most of their working time being teleprinter operators.   I think that Wilbur felt he had to find them something to do and had discovered a few tons of rock so that they could build a low wall around our transmitting station. Working Party - Apr54.   The builders of The Great Wall round the Transmitter Station take a tea break.   Rip Kirby, 'Bunny' Rhodes, Lom Strafford, ? Perkins and Ernie Pavelin.   We believe that this photo was taken a few minutes before Ernie Pavelin's photo which is shown under station pictures.   Dick writes: "Apparently Lom got his nickname because the corporal in charge of the homer, Jim Sinfield said he was like a 'little old man'". Flying Wing Headquarters - Mar54.   This was taken before the control tower was built.   Notice that there are two semi-circular extensions on the ground floor front of the building.   The one near the centre was where the observers from the Met Office could look at the weather and the one on the right was the office of Wing Commander Flying (Wg Cdr West).   The extension to the Met Office was extended upwards to the first floor after this to form a room where the local airfield controller supervised take-offs and landings.   See the next picture, believed to have been taken in Nov54 when the Wing was detached to Wunstorf while the runway was extended.   The changes to the Flying Wing HQ visible in that picture were made at the same time. Flying Wing HQ and Air Traffic Control.   This is an interesting picture as it looks as though the control tower curved area has not been finished and the dirt and wheel tracks coming on to the taxiway in the foreground would not have been tolerated if the taxiways had been in use.   It was probably taken during Nov54 when the runway was being lengthened and the extensions made to this building.   The squadrons were deployed to Wunstorf during this period. Basket Ball Team.   The team and its trainer were happy to pose so I could take this photo.   Unfortunately I can remember only one of their names.   6th from the left on the back row was an Irish radar mechanic Pat Short. Basket Ball - Apr54.   We had a basket ball team and there was an excellent gym for them to play in. Jever v US Navy - Apr54.   Our basket-ball team were playing the US Navy in this game.   The nearest US base was in Bremerhaven so I guess this was their resident team. Wilhelmshaven Sailing Club - Jun54.   There was a sailing club that operated in the inner harbour at Wilhelmshaven.   I guess this was paid for by the PSI organization. If you could get weekend passes it was worth joining the club.   There was a problem here for some of the technical types because there had to be a nucleus of people available to open the airfield in an emergency so membership seemed to be dominated by the 8 to 5 people.   Wilbur wasn't well disposed to signing 295s ad-lib so the sailing club never got onto my agenda.   However I did manage to join a conducted tour and took a few pictures as we cruised round the harbour in a large motor boat. Wilhelmshaven Sailing Club - Jun54.   Man overboard! - The caption in my negative file for this picture says 'Gash FO in the drink'.   Anyone volunteer a name? New swimming pool on Jever camp - Jun54.   It was supposed to be an Emergency Water Supply!   Eventually Robbie Roberts of the Airfield Construction Branch scrounged a whole lot of old wooden engine cases from stores and fenced the pool in. Enjoying the new swimming pool on Jever camp - Jun54.   Anyone add some names? Eventually the construction of the swimming pool was completed.   Here is a pictures of SAC Brian Appleby.   I was interested to note that the German men frequently wore hats (mainly peaked caps) and these often reflected their trade.   Obviously, with nothing better to spend a few bob on Appleby and had I visited the Mutzenmarcher Meister in Jever and bought ourselves a sailor?s hat each.   The lifebelt obviously made a good prop for the photo. Canal at Oldenburg - Jun54. Conker Tree at Oldenburg - Jun54. Jever Town scene - Jun54. Schloss Drogerie, Jever Town - Jun54. Rob Houghton on the Assault Course - Jun54. Unusual view of Jever Town Windmill and nearby creek - Jun54. Dick Endecott - Jun54. Dick Endecott in the VW Kombi - Jun54.   For about the first year of my stay in Jever the vehicle we used as our run-around to reach the outstations was a 30 cwt Bedford. I think it was eventually written off as being beyond the limit of effective maintenance and was relegated to a firing range where a pilot told me he had probably put it out of its misery.   The consolation, however was a brand new VW Kombi (now called a 'camper' and still very much in evidence on the roads today). Crossing at the Dutch-German border for the Amsterdam Weekend - Jun54.   Much of this film was taken during a single weekend.   The corporal in charge of the VHF direction finder (homer), Joe Knapp, used to organize occasional trips but the weekend to Amsterdam was probably the one highlight of our tour in Jever.   The majority of us were probably too young and virginal to take advantage of all that Amsterdam has to offer.   The exchange rate was not good so eating and drinking carved a significant hole in most financial resources.   I wont give the name of the one person who spent one night with a Dutch girl but I will say that it left him stoney broke and the sleazy room for the night cost five times what he had left to pay the girl.   After the normal canal trip and museums that we could afford most of us went to the red-light district about 10 pm and observed until around 1 am.   I can only say that it was nothing like we had ever seen before.   While we wore civies and may have looked vaguely like tourists there were plenty of American service men about in uniform and it was obvious that their ages were on average 5 years older than us.    They also had money to spare and were obvious targets for the girls picking up along the canal sides.   Unfortunately, even Ilford HP3 film, an F2 Ultron lens and Promicrol developer couldn't resolve a recognizable image under the normal street lighting so there is no record of what we saw after sunset. Canals on the Amsterdam Weekend - Jun54. The Hague - Jun54.   On day two we moved on to the Hague for something a bit more cultural but we left around 5 pm to return to Jever via the road across the Zuider Zee.   What amazes me about this picture is that everyone looks so smart - almost all wearing ties on a Sunday.   Anyone add names? The Houses of Parliament in The Hague - Jun54. Kim Hall in the Officers' Mess Anteroom. Looks like a Mess Tent on an exercise?   Unknown, Unknown Army Officer, Unknown Army Officer, Eric Bowen.   Anyone know the occasion? Looks like that Mess Tent again?   L to R: Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Wg Cdr Stafford Coulson DSO DFC OC Flying Wing, Unknown.   Anyone supply more names? Maybe that Mess Tent again?   L to R: Eric Bowen, Unknown, Unknown Army Officer, Wg Cdr Stafford Coulson DSO DFC OC Flying Wing, Unknown.   Anyone supply more names? Getting some sun at Flying Wing HQ.   This was after construction of the Control Tower as its shadow can just be seen on the left - 1954. 1955 Snow - Feb55.   This film is my last film taken while at Jever.   It doesn't cover my last 3 months because I took my camera home when I went on leave in June 1955 as I had saved enough pay to pay the customs duty on it if the customs men had been awkward but I expected to get it through as I had owned it long enough to avoid duty.   Winter in Northern Germany was pretty cold and there was plenty of snow.   This snow scene was taken near the transmitting station in the south-western corner of the airfield.   Also quite near the transmitting station was the accommodation for the living-in German Service Organization staff.   The right-hand picture shows the GSO billets at the end of the road. Air Traffic Control - Feb55.   Except for the caravan on the end of the runway all air traffic control was organized from one place.   When I first arrived all this was from a large Ford Koln lorry parked outside the Flying-wing HQ.   Later Wilbur scrounged enough equipment for us to install what we called the control tower on the first floor of FWHQ.   This consisted of 3 rooms above the met office shown in this and the next 2 photos.   This picture shows the local airfield control position overlooking the runway.   In the picture you can see that there is snow on the ground outside.   From this position the local controller usually used the local airfield frequency, channel E, to talk to aircraft during take-off and landing.   This frequency was shared with the runway caravan when manned.   It was also possible to talk to aircraft on the Jever approach channel B from this position. Air Traffic Control - Feb55.   This picture is the approach controller's desk.   This is where the controller mainly assisted pilots returning to base by doing QGHs ('Q' code for controlled descent through cloud).   For this the bearing of the aircraft was determined by a radio direction finder that we called the 'homer' (and later CRDF).   This was passed by the DF operator on a loud-speaker intercom.   From this information the controller told the pilot the bearing to steer.   The controller also had three other frequencies on a press-button selector.   These were local airfield, general group - a frequency that was used by visiting aircraft plus 111.42 MHz which I think was the 2-Group fixer frequency. Air Traffic Control - Feb55.   This picture shows the room there the operations clerk sat and logged all messages.   He listened on all 4 frequencies so he could tell the controller when an aircraft called on a frequency he didn't have selected. John Grice and Frank Hill in their new Air Traffic Control "glass house" - about early 55. John Hill at work as a D/F Operator. This is my room mate SAC Atkins laying on his bed - about Mar55.   This is interesting in that it shows the general conditions that we lived in.   I would guess that this was far better than any station in the UK. John Hill in his winter gear. A drawing John Hill did on the shelf from a locker - disused!   The words introduced a New Orleans jazz number if he remembers correctly. "Brown Job's" transport in the trees at the back of the ATC/Flying Wing HQ building.   The Army Major's VW.   There were two brown jobs - a Taff Richards and a Scotsman Smyth. Waltraud and her sister visited the Deutches Haus one Saturday night.   It was a very pleasant evening until first light and the train arrived to return them to - was it Sande? Downtown Jever looking through to the Church Square. Jever Schloss which John remembers seeing an aircraft come round, it seemed dramatically, before landing and taxiing to where Heinz Knoke stored his supplies for his airlift to Sylt which he understood was frozen up at the time. Wilhelmshaven submarine pens is what John remembers being told.   Massive in construction - see John Barnard of Lowestoft, a diminutive figure at the front of the building. Partly demolished German Navy Submarine Pens in Wilhelmshaven. Another shot of the partly demolished German Navy Submarine Pens in Wilhelmshaven. The Web Master thinks, having seen this view, he is not so sure that this was the submarine pens themselves.   More likely a flak tower/Air raid Shelter somewhere in the area in Wilhelmshaven docks. An unusual shot of the Jever Schloss - Mar55. One of the Jever Town lakes - Mar55. The other Jever Town lake - Mar55. In March 55, Jever was not a very large town so organized vice was not a problem generally.   However, there was one place, the St Annentor - better known as the TK, that was out of bounds to us.   Nobody questioned the reason it was out of bounds, probably because people are prepared to believe the worst and took it to be a brothel.   Not being one to take things at their face value I ventured in there on a hot Sunday afternoon and got talking to the barmaid over a couple of biers.   She was in her 40's and assured me that there would be no profit in running a brothel in a town the size of Jever.   She told me she knew this from experience as when the war started her job in 'customer relations' staff with the typewriter factory became redundant so she and the other two girls who worked with her carried on doing the same job by opening a brothel for the German navy in Wilhelmshaven.   The real reason for putting the TK out of bounds was that the MO didn't think the toilets were clean enough.   My experience was that they were equal to or better than any other place in Jever and certainly ten times better than the Cafehaus Rahrdum just a mile up the road from camp.   There was also the advantage that the TK had a condom machine that sold a packet of 3 lubricated for just one Deutschmark - a lot cheaper than the barber's on camp!   It is interesting to note that when Powel-Sheddon's tour was up the new CO said the TK was OK. Another shot of the St Annentor - March 55. The next three pictures were taken at our transmitting station about Apr55.   As stated previously our nearest neighbour was the GSO billets so, when there wasn't much to do we amused ourselves.   In the first picture was see Pete Witty, a Junior Technician making a cricket bat under the supervision of our senior NCO whose name was Flt Sgt Walker but affectionately known by all as 'Chief'. Sid Loosely playing a straight bat - about Apr55. Cpl Tony Hallam and Dick Endecott - about Apr55.   You should note here the terrible quality of our uniforms.   Corporals and above generally made an effort to look smart.   Tony is wearing his 'best-blue' to give a look of more authority but my philosophy was to dress as scruffily as I could get away with.   My belief was that an irk who looks too smart is deficient in some more serious way. This maybe the first Hunter F.4 at Jever.   In which case it would have been a 98 Sqn aircraft but not yet with squadron colours - 15Apr55.   Dick Endecott writes: "My now feeble memory may have let me down here but as it seems this Hunter taxying past ATC may have been the first to arrive.   There are no visible markings on this Hunter and I guess this may be because they hadn't had time to paint them on.   Again, my memory is unreliable but I think this may have been the occasion when either W/Cdr West or S/Ldr Gilpin were flying.   The word was going around ATC that who ever it was was going to take it through the sound barrier".   98 Sqn were the first to get their Hunters when they were moved to Jever from Fassberg on re-equipment from Venoms.   The first aircraft on their charge was Hunter F.4 Ww649 which eventually became E.   This arrived on 98 on Friday 15Apr55 and went to 5MU on Wed 10Jul57.   Sqn Ldr Gilpin was Co of 4 Sqn who did not get their Hunters until Jul55, so it was either Wg Cdr Hammer West or the CO of 98 Sqn at that time Sqn Ldr Smith-Carington. Pinto, Hammer West's dog in his office - 1955. Hammer West with the starting cannon used for sailing races in Wilhelmshaven - about 55. Station Sailing in Wilhelmshaven. More seems to be going on at the Station Sailing Club in Wilhelmshaven than just sailing! That's more like it at the Station Sailing Club in Wilhelmshaven! James and Jean Devan before the Summer Ball in July 1955.   See the next photo of them taken during the Ball. ATC brethren at the Summer Ball in July 1955.   L to R: Rear standing: Unknown; Unknown Lady, Unknown; Jean Devan; James Devan; Seated: Unknown; Unknown.   Anyone able to name the faces? Summer Ball at Jever July 1955.   I have provided an index of the 25 recognisable dancers.   Can anyone supply names?   2. Jimmy Devan and 3. Jean Devan - thanks to their daughter's sharp eye, Suzanne Lamb! Jimmy and Jean Devan out shopping on Main Street, in Prestwick, Scotland - about 46/47. Jimmy Devan at work in ATC in Singapore - about 62/63. Jimmy Devan fishing on the River Nith, near Dumfries, where he was born - about late 40s. Pete Davis and Ginger Rednap - May55.   Here we are nearly finished with a few pictures taken in the ATC during a 'night-flying' session.   Officially, night flying was on Tuesdays and Thursdays and this greatly annoyed me because it was the same nights that they had German lessons in the education centre. More often than not night flying would be cancelled.   These pictures were taken while we waited to be told it had been cancelled. Ginger Rednap and his Giles Cartoon Book - May55. Happy Days!   Brian Watson and John Sutton supporting a happy "Hammer" West.   Suspect early 1955. OC Flying Wg Cdr Hammer West standing by his service Volkswagen on the Dining Room Tables in the Officer' Mess after a Dining-In Night.   I have heard of this being done many times but never had a photograph of the result - about 1955. Still there at Breakfast next morning.  Someone studiously trying to ignore it.  OC Flying Wg Cdr Hammer West's service Volkswagen on the Dining Room Tables in the Officer' Mess after a Dining-In Night prank - about 1955. Some of the lads at the swimming pool - all from Signals if John remembers correctly.   L to R: John (Stickbuddy) Barnard, Mick Jones (2 Group Fixer), Neil Doran, John Hill, Ken Platt (Transmitters) and Phil Snow. No 122 Wing Formation Flypast in Wing Number for C-in-C - 16Sep55. Another shot of the 122 Wing Formation flypast for C-in-C Sir Harry Broadhurst when he visited Jever on 16Sep55. Yet another shot of the C-in-C's flypast - 16Sep55. C-in-C's flypast - 16Sep55. Station Flight preparing to fly the German Press.   L to R: Unknown German Press, John Sutton, Pete Sanderson, Shrubby Shrubsole and Unknown German Press - About 1955 as John Sutton arrived on Station Flight in Jan55 but in Dec55 became Flight Commander on 4 Sqn and he is not yet wearing a 4 Sqn badge. 122 Wing at a Dining-In Night for Station Commander G/C Tom Prickett on his departure from Jever on 16th December 1955.   Same as 118 Sqn picture 025. 1. Dennis Tann Stn Flt; 2.John Davis 93 Sqn; 2a. John Sutton Stn Flt; 3. Unknown; 4. Fred Dawson 4 Sqn; 5. Bill Maish 4 Sqn; 6. Tommy Thompson 118 Sqn; 7. Denny Dennison 118 Sqn; 8. Brian Iles 93 Sqn; 9. Brian Watson 4 Sqn; 10. Sandy Findley Educ; 11. Don Riley 98 Sqn; 12. Bill Dodds 118 Sqn; 13. Unknown ATC?; 14. Mis Misselbrook 118 Sqn; 15. Charlie Powell 118 Sqn; 16. Bill Brewer 118 Sqn; 17. Dave Young 98 Sqn. 122 Wing Dining Out for Station Commander Group Captain Tom Prickett DSO, DFC - 16Dec55.   L to R: 1.Ian Craig; 2. Unknown; 3. ken Goodwin; 4. Unknown; 5. Unknown; 6. Tom Balfour; 7. Ralf Hayes; 8. Unknown; 9. Jerry Busby; 10. John Davis; 11. Clam Clayton-Jones; 12. Dave Chadwick; 13. Unknown; 14. Gp Capt Tom Prickett; 15. Bill Ritchie; 16. Des Browne; 17. Don Exley; 18. Bill Simms; 19. Sandy Sanderson; 20. Brian Dunbar.   Can anyone add more names? Another shot taken at the 122 Wing Dining Out for Group Captain Tom Prickett DSO, DFC - 16Dec55. 2 pictures obviously taken at the same time but different, of 122 Wing - Early Dec55 (Date estimated from Tom Prickett who handed over to Sid Hughes on 1Dec55, Dougie Adamson and his predecessor John Smith-Carington both on the photograph and they handed over 98 in Dec55 and Norman Buddin who did not take over 118 until Jan56 but is on this photograph.   Looks like a rainy day on the back patio of the Officers' Mess so I guess it was a farewell photograph for the end of Tom Prickett's period as Station Commander.     Can anyone identify more names or have a dated version of this photo? 1956 The Met "Farm" in the foreground and the RAF Jever Signals Square beyond - about 1956.   [Click to see the full explanation of an Air Traffic Control Signals Square.]   JV are RAF Jever's identification letters.   The symbols in the square mean the following: Red square top left-hand corner means "Aerodrome rules are temporarily suspended and that special arrangements are in operation".   This was the normal warning SATCO's used on RAF bases to warn aircraft that they were not welcome without prior clearance.   The H alongside means that there is an area set aside for Helicopter operations.   The red square in the right-hand corner with two yellow bars means land in an emergency only.   Again a protective measure by SATCOs to deter unwanted strangers.   The T just this side of that red square indicates wind from the right and therefore the landing direction is from left to right.   The white dumbell means that you must keep your aircraft on the paved surfaces (again a precaution) and the Red L superimposed means that light aircraft may take off and land on the runway or another designated area.   This area was the grass parallel to the runway. One of the Met instruments outside Flying Wing Headquarters.   It is a Campbell Stokes sunshine recorder and it is manufactured to the British Meteorological Office's specification.   The sphere is made from well-annealed optical glass and the hours the sun shines are recorded onto a card inserted into the base of the recorder.   The cards are marked with hourly intervals.   Two models are available: the choice depends on the latitude at which the recorder is to be used.   Record cards are included for the first year.   Please note there is a waiting period of six months from time of order for this product as the item is carefully made to order.   Today it costs: £1,521.70.   The record cards are made from a special board with a matt turquoise finish on which even weak sunlight produces a clearly visible trace.   They are treated to char rather than burn so that the trace produced by strong sunlight does not spread significantly.   There are three types of card to correspond to the behaviour of the sun at different seasons: long curved for use in summer, straight for use near the equinoxes and short curved for use in winter.   All are marked with hourly intervals and are used to record the hours of daylight as measured in the "Met Garden". Flying Wing with Tower, WINCO's Office, Army Major's Office (Intelligence?), Met. Office and mast from where I took the photo of the JV identity sent earlier.   It now surprises me to think that though I occupied this building for nearly two and half years, many of its rooms were never visited; contents in the main were/are a mystery!   John notes in Knoke's book that the Met. Office was the same in his day. The Met mast on top of Flying Wing Headquarters. The Ground Controlled Approach radar aerial that is used to give pilots the final talk-down instructions right onto the runway threshold.   It is on top of a mobile caravan that is moved to the other end of the runway when the landing direction changes. Air Traffic Control Tower embedded in the front of Flying Wing HQ over the top of the Met Office. The rifle and Bren gun range.   Web Master suspects that this is Building 48 in the trees to the south of the airfield immediately behind Hangar 4. Mess Party for 122 Wing, 4, 93, 98 and 118 Sqns - Jan-Mar56. Another shot of the Mess Party for 122 Wing, 4, 93, 98 and 118 Sqns - Jan-Mar56. Roy Philips was the person John Hill first met on arriving at Flying Wing after quite a journey from the UK.   Roy was also an RTDF Operator on the newly installed CRDF facility.   The "comforts" enjoyed there were occasionally disturbed by Squadron Leader Dower's order to "scramble manual homer!"   The RVT 105, designed to cater for a slower world, was something else when used for Hunter Mk 6s and several simultaneous QGHs! L to R: Jim O'Day, Mick Jones and Phil Snow with time on their hands. John Hill wrote: "I first saw Ron Gleason at Cardington where we reported for service and took the oath.   It was about a fortnight after I had left school - never had a beer!   Ron appeared, immaculately dressed - as a Teddy Boy - his hair fashioned into - I learned - a "Tony Curtis" at the front with a DA (Duck's Ass) at the back, immediately above what I learned was called a "Boston".   It was quite a sight for me who had led the sheltered life.   He recovered from his visit to the hairdresser, survived square bashing and latterly showed up in Jever using "thee" and "thou" as, he said, "one does in Sheffield".   It was all an eye opener for me." John Hill wrote: "Jim O'Day was with us on the DF finder.   He was married and from Portsmouth.   During our stay in Jever Jim "signed on" for 12 years - they canvassed quite a few to do the same with out much success.   He received something like £100 [£2,027 at today's value Jun13] for agreeing to be hired and I remember a little guilt on consuming some beer purchased with not all but with some of the same of his remuneration". Douglas (Jock) Thompson was from Inverurie near Aberdeen.   He was with 2 Group Fixer. John Hill on the right with 'Taf' Richards, one of the two army "brown jobs" who worked with the Major as a driver.   I realise now that we did not know really what the Major's work involved except that it was concerned with intelligence.   His office was downstairs in Flying Wing and I was obliged to report to him in order to recover photographs confiscated at the Guardroom when my suitcase was searched prior to my going on leave.   It was apparent - when I presented myself at his desk on return from leave - that my breech of security - to quote the "Snowdrop" on duty that morning - did not even register on his list of priorities.   With a smile he handed them back to me. Wednesday afternoon was for sports.   L to R: Pete McNabb, Mick Jones, Unknown, Douglas, Jock Thompson and Unknown. Gordon Lennox watches the day go down - time for a pint! Airmens' NAAFI.   Flying Wing was reached by a path through the woods to the right. Cpl. Jake ? on duty at the Emergency Fixer. Phil Snow and John Hill on the steps leading to the Met Office in the Flying Wing HQ. Keeping in trim during our spare time behind the Flying Wing HQ which was a Luftwaffe hospital during the war.   L to R: Mick Jones, Pete McNab, Neil Doran and Cpl Gordon Jock Lennox. L to R: Jim O'Day, Phil Snow and Mick Jones relaxing in the forest. Visiting USAF North American F-86 Sabre. Car Racing in the Dispersals in the Woods at Jever - Early 56. Hammer West organising Car Racing in the Dispersals in the Woods at Jever - Early 56. Car Race in progress. - Early 56. A bit of quiet sun bathing going on overhead OC 122 Wing, Commander Woodward's office - about summer 1956. This web presented itself one morning in the short wooded path from the NAAFI up to Flying Wing; after a night bind on the 121.5 Fixer this was an eye opener - about summer 1956. This is not who it might appear to be but rather is Lionel Holmes - ATC if I remember correctly and resident in Flying Wing. Bruno Alber's painting of the OC 122 Wing's Hunter F.4 presented to Hammer and Nancy West by 98 Sqn. Wg Cdr Hammer West, OC 122 Wing Hunter Xe665 with the 4 squadron badges on the nose - Summer 1956. A view from the Station Homer - the harvest seen was completed over night by a chap on a tractor with lights fitted to a boom mounted on the tractor - perhaps Sep56.   There appears to be a squadron of Dutch F-84s on what was then 93 Squadron pan in front of Hanger 3.   On 18Sep56 4 and 93 Sqns were detached to RNAF Leeuwarden for an exercise.   Maybe these Dutch squadrons exchanged bases for the period. Self explanatory!   Entrance to the aircraft dispersal area. Wg Cdr Woodward was kind enough to lend us his tunic in order that we may dress the Christmas Bar "Dummy".   Perhaps the less said ---.   John dressed in the OC Flying's tunic Christmas 1956. 1957 Original Board of Governors of Jever Steam Laundry - about Apr 1957.   Hammer West in bed with Flu'. John Hill writes that the facilities on the camp were amazing considering when the place was built - late 1930s?    To take your clothes off, get into a shower, in front of a window and watch the RAF go bye was relaxing! RAF Handley Page Hastings.   John Hill says he thinks this was taken during the Anglo German Week - which would be 21Jun57 when the first one was held.   John recounts: "A meeting was called in the airmen's mess prior to commencement of celebrations where the Station Commander Gp. Captain S.W.R.Hughes warned us all, that if there was any trouble during the week we would get the blame irrespective of who actually caused the bother!   A very tall coloured chap rashly reminded the Group Captain of our rights!!!   The reply, not surprisingly, reminded us that as hired assassins we did not have any rights!   I can laugh at it now but as an eighteen year old it was over my head. Gloster Meteor T.7 - Open Day RAF Jever - 21Jun57. Gloster Javelin - Open Day RAF Jever - 19Jun57. de Havilland Vampire T.11 - Open Day RAF Jever - 19Jun57. Avro Shackleton at RAF Jever Anglo-German Open Day - 19Jun57. Another shot of Avro Shackleton at RAF Jever Anglo-German Open Day - 19Jun57. Yet another shot of Avro Shackleton at RAF Jever Anglo-German Open Day - 19Jun57. Lockheed C-130 Hercules at RAF Jever Anglo-German Open Day - 19Jun57. Lockheed C-130 Hercules at RAF Jever Anglo-German Open Day - 19Jun57.   John recalls that on the open week there was a degree of security with regards the air craft on display.   The Americans however, opened this one to the general public, as a result of which they were unable to depart Jever until equipment which had been appropriated was flown in from their home base! Two Dutch Republic RF-84F Thunderstreaks visiting for the Open Day - 19Jun57. Visiting Gloster Meteor NF11 Anglo-German Open Day - 19Jun57. Visiting Dutch Republic F-84F Thunderstreak Anglo-German Open Day - 19Jun57. Visiting Dutch Douglas C-47 Dakota Anglo-German Open Day - 19Jun57. Republic F-84F Thunderstreak from German Air Force - Open Day RAF Jever - 19Jun57. The "Wheels" watch the Open Day from the front of Flying Wing HQ - 19Jun57.   L to R: Unknown, Station Commander Group Captain Sid Hughes, Air Officer Commanding No 2 Group Air Vice-Marshal Paddy the Earl of Bandon (also know as the "Abandoned Earl") and unknown flight lieutenant, probably Paddy's ADC. USAF Fairchild C-119 Boxcars and helicopter deployed to Jever for Exercise Brown Jug ready to drop the 11th US Airborne into Denmark - 17Sep57. USAF Fairchild C-119 Boxcar deployed to Jever for Exercise Brown Jug ready to drop the 11th US Airborne into Denmark - 17Sep57. Crash vehicles out for an emergency.   Looks like a USAF Fairchild C-119 Boxcar so it may have been during the deployment of those aircraft to Jever for Exercise Brown Jug when they dropped the 12th US Airborne into Denmark - about 17Sep57.   Note there seems to be another Boxcar parked against the trees in the background. Flying Wing HQ probably about Nov57. Ian Scott working at his role in the Met Office in Flying Wing HQ probably about Nov57. Mobile Anemometer belonging to the Met Office probably about Nov57. 1958 Andy Clark and Ted Childs next to Andy's new Ford Zephyr - 58 or 59. Jack Ross at work in the Met Office. Station Flight Armourer arming the ejection seat drogue gun on Vampire T.11 XH326 - about 1958.   Can anyone supply a name? Unusual visitors to the station, in I believe 1958, were these brand-new Armstrong-Whitworth Sea Hawk FAW 100 from the then newly formed Marinefliegergeschwader 1 at Schleswig.   The wing was formed at Lossiemouth 1958 and VA 220 was the first of a total batch of 68. An unusual visitor to the station, in I believe 1958, were these brand-new Armstrong-Whitworth Sea Hawk FAW 100 from the then newly formed Marinefliegergeschwader 1 at Schleswig.   The wing was formed at Lossiemouth 1958. Armstrong-Whitworth Sea Hawk FAW 100 from the then newly formed Marinefliegergeschwader 1 at Schleswig.   The wing was formed at Lossiemouth 1958 and VA 220 was the first of a total batch of 68. Armstrong-Whitworth Sea Hawk FAW 100 from the then newly formed Marinefliegergeschwader 1 at Schleswig.   The wing was formed at Lossiemouth 1958 and VA 220 was the first of a total batch of 68. 122 Wing HQ and Air Traffic Control. 93 Sqn Hunter, 2 Sqn Swift and 4 Sqn Hunter - Before Dec58 122 Wing HQ and Air Traffic Control with 3 Squadron aircraft, 93 Sqn Hunter, 2 Sqn Swift and 4 Sqn Hunter, decorate the front of the RAF Jever Christmas Card for 1958. 122 Wing HQ and Air Traffic Control about Winter 58/59. 1959 4 Sqn Teddy Boys' Party 13Mar59.   L to R: Elana Bullport and Barbara Kirk. 4 Sqn Teddy Boys' Party 13Mar59.   L to R: Unknown Lady, Elana Bullport and Barbara Kirk. Station Flight - about May59.   L to R Avro Anson, de Havilland Chipmunk, de Havilland Vampire T.11 and Gloster Meteor T.7. Station Avro Anson - about May59. Station Flight - about Sep59.   Can anyone add names? Douglas and Pete Doige from Station Flight - about Sep59. Pete Doige and Ed Duke from Station Flight - about Sep59. L to R: Vampire T.11, Anson and two Hunter T.7s used for training, instrument checks and check outs and hosted in Station Flight - about Sep59. Known only as "BC" - a cartoon character from the newspapers -he was responsible for replenishing the oxygen as here for the Hunter T.7 - about Sep59. "Hairy Bear Trio" Station Flight sometime between Sep59 and Feb61.   Names to be added. Ed Duke standing by his "Real Car". Ed Duke, Ursula Duke (eventually) and Tommy Gibson. 1960 Formation snow clearing. Ski and Winter Survival Course Ehrwald - Mon 15Feb60.   L to R: Back row: Unknown, Nobby Hall 4 Sqn; Dick; Jeremy Hall 93 Sqn; Neil Kirk Jever SMO.   Front row all unknown.   It is interesting that Jeremy Hall stayed only one day as 93 Sqn were running short of pilots for a Sylt detachment and the F540 reports: "Flt.Lt. J.T. Hall was recalled from Kohlgrub's sunny slopes (the Squadron was fast running out of pilots) and returned to Jever on Tuesday." Bernie, Puzey and Stan Cobb turning round a German Air Force Sabre in station flight.   The Sabre was from No.10 OTU based at Oldenburg.   This training unit eventually moved up to Jever after the RAF had left. Neil Kirk's favourite car outside his quarter, 13 Edert Strasse.   Strangely the semi-detached house next door on the right is, in fact, 22 Schumacher Strasse.   So this is the beginning of Edert Strasse. Also No 13 Edert Strasse, Neil Kirk, the SMO's MQ.   The young enthusiast bursting through the gate is not John Kirk or his elder brother - so can anyone claim this lost child?   The houses in the background are in Schumacher Strasse.   31 is the end house on the left block and 33 to 39 is the block on the right. RAF Jever maternity Unit - Jun60.   L to R: "Scottie" Scott, Silvia, Alison Fraser, Robert Gilchrist and Neil Kirk. RAF Jever Nursery School - Sep60.   Anyone able to recognise the "lost" children?   L to R: Unknown, Unknown teacher, Unknown, Judy Kirk, all Unknown until 3rd from right, Susan Kirk looking backwards, Unknown, Unknown. Christmas Draw - 1960.   L to R: Rosamund Cock, Mike Lydiard at back, Barbara Kirk, Peter Cock and Neil Kirk. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.    Barbara Kirk dressed as a clown. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.    Barbara Kirk dressed as a clown dancing with Charles Bulport. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.    Barbara Kirk dressed as a clown sitting with an unknown couple. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.    Neil Kirk dressed as a dressed as a harem girl alongside Dickie Dixon and Bettie Dixon. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.   Another shot of Neil Kirk dressed as a dressed as a harem girl.   Unknown Lady in background. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.   L to R: Neil Kirk, Unknown, Unknown Lady, Fergie Ferguson, 2 Sqn. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.   L to R: "Scottie" Scott dancing with Neil Kirk. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.   L to R: Betty and Dickie Dixon, believed to be guests of Neil Kirk. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.   Robert Gilchrist, Medical Officer. When the Hunter squadrons disbanded at the end of 1960 there was a large fancy dress New Year's Eve Party in the Officers' Mess - 31Dec60.   This looks like a pre-Ball drinks in the Sick Quarters.   L to R: John Haig, Unknown Lady, Unknown, Unknown smoking, Neil Kirk and Unknown Lady. 1961 111 Squadron visiting Jever - 1961. 111 Sqn Hunter F.6 visiting - 1961. Hunter T.7 belonging to 111 Squadron visiting Jever - 1961. Ed Duke was posted back to RAF Watton in Feb61 and with no married quarter entitlement, he bought a Bond 3 wheeler and a caravan to live in.   It must have been a shock for his newly married German wife Ursula. Jever Town Schutzenfest - July 1961. Ursula and Ed Duke on their wedding day at Schortens - 31Dec61 and they are still happily married 52 years later! 2008 James Devan's daughter, Suzanne Lamb added this photo of her family group with Wg Cdr Bill Swetman who was her father, James Devan's pilot in WWII on Canadian Bomber Sqn 426 when he won a DFC as a Flight Engineer - 30Aug08.   Suzanne writes: "I am attaching a photo of us all taken at the 426 Squadron Reunion two weeks ago in Ottawa.   L to R: Wg Cdr Bill Swetman, Suzanne Lamb, my husband Howard Lamb, Kathy Swetman (Bill's wife), Bob Swetman (Bill's son) and Carole (Bob's wife)". 2012 122 Wing well represented at the Cold War Reunion at Old Warden on Sunday 7Oct12 when Nigel Walpole invited over several East German Air Force officers who served opposite us in East Germany during the cold war.   L to R: Danny Lavender 2 Sqn, Al Pollock 4 Sqn, Sir John Sutton Station Flight and 4 sqn and Mick Ryan 93 Sqn.