Click on the picture on the left to read an article by Lindsay Peacock that was first published in the 1992 Coastal Command Yearbook, and which describes a 208 Squadron maritime strike/attack training mission in which the author took part. John Tait, Damian D’Lima and Phil Walters play a starring role.
Exercise RED FLAG 1977
3rd August 2022 marked the 45th Anniversary of the first participation in Exercise RED FLAG by any RAF squadron and, of course, 208 was that Squadron. Click on the picture on the right to read an extract from Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork’s book ‘Buccaneer Boys’ in which David Wilby gives his recollections of the deployment.
Op PULSATOR
On 9 September 1983, Buccaneers of 208 and 12 Squadrons deployed to RAF Akrotiri as part of Op PULSATOR in support of British Forces deployed in the Lebanon. Click on the picture on the left to read the Detachment Commander’s report on the Operation in the Royal Air Force Historical Society’s Journal.
