Recorded interview with Gordon Samuel Stringer, 24 May 2013

Gordon Stringer served as an instrument mechanic from 1958 to 1961, working on Handley Page Victor bomber aircraft of 15 Squadron at RAF Cottesmore and Vampire T.11s at RAF Swinderby.

Gordon Stringer joined the RAF as an instrument mechanic in 1958, completing recruit training at RAF Wilmslow and trade training at RAF Melksham. He was then posted to 15 Squadron at RAF Cottesmore, working on Handley Page Victor bombers. He remembers detachments to Canada and Cyprus and comments on the prospect of nuclear war, security, dispersal and working on Vampire T.11s at RAF Swinderby before his discharge from the RAF.