Mike`s first contact with me. I thought that the markings originated from our time there, but this proves I was wrong
in that assumption.

Below is Mike`s plan of RAF Kasfareet  as remembered by him 52 years later

My first contact from the group who are dead keen to source any parts of the wartime Stirling bomber which may eventually lead to the first Stirling rebuild for posterity.

The following letter then received from the Stirling Project Group, I forwarded on to Mike because he was the first to mention scrapping of aircraft as can be seen noted on his map above, but in his case, Spitfires.

Mikes reply to the above letter regarding scrapped Stirling Bombers at Kasfareet.

Feb 11th 2011

More memories just received from Mike and
also on his thoughts on the current situation being played out mainly in Cairo where the people are in revolt against  the President Hosni Mubarak

Instrument Team 1951

       Mike - centre

    Pat Hanrahan  ?
           - right

Scrap Spitfires Kasfareet 1951.....after we finished with them
Spitfires, I cannot date these pictures accurately but guess we probably did the job in Novenber 1951 as we were all in working blue with full length denim overalls. In October I think we would have been in shorts, tho` I can`t remember the changeover date from KD to working blue.
The Spitfires were all marked up as 208 Sqn and I assume that they had all flown in sometime before I arrived in the previous autumn.

ASS chariot Xmas 1952 with Flt Lt Protheroe in charge. He was 107MU test pilot. I think by the time you arrived he had returned to the UK and killed himself in a car crash.

ASS tentage area from the fuel tank tower at the shower and washing  building.

Meteor Jet NF `s lined up for a picture with ASS staff in front.

Royal Signals lines in the ASS tentage area with an 8F  loco going past

On leave at Port Fouad 1952

Rear :- Brian Kemp, Jock ? Ginger ?

with me in front, a very young LAC

Z Craft ferry from Port Said to Port Fouad Holiday Camp

             Mike standing on a Spitfire nose

Mike seated in Spitfire cockpit with the multi engined aircraft hanger behind.

Mike says " these pics not as good as I would wish but both film and chemicals were obtained from time  expired stock in the BDSM Compound, on top of that they are nearly 60 yeras old anyway  !!  ( You should be so lucky Mike. I never knew about BDSM out there so I bought surplus Air Ministry photographic paper by post from the UK , address picked up from Amateur Photographer....Alwyn)

February 6th 1952...Mikes vivid memory of what he was doing when the passing of King George VI was announced.