A personal memoir of an aircrew officer, his experiences in the service and ashore with friends and families he met during eight active years through the Cold War. For two and a half of those years he served on loan to the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm and traveled to Japan and New Zealand as well as the Near East, Suez and the Far East. He served in HMS Eagle, HMS Centaur, HMS Bulwark and HMAS Sydney and Vengeance..In the UK based at RNAS Culdrose, Eglington and St Merryn as well as Lee-on-Solent. As an anti-submarine specialist observer he flew in Fireflies, Gannets and Westland Whirlwind squadrons. ditched in the Meditterranean Sea and force landed a number of times.