Call Signs and Radio Silence

So then we went overseas and I went to two or three stations there flying Oxford aircraft; I checked on them at night, we did these flights and that’s whenever the Halifax’s and the Lancaster's were doing their night bombing and the Americans did it during the daytime. So at night we’d be up next to Oxford and you weren’t quite, there was so many airports; it seemed to me there were airports everywhere which would light up and then all the lights would all go out, you know. I’d say, “Oh my God!” They had what they called this “darky, darky” sort of thing, I believe that’s what the call sign was and when you called, “darky, darky” immediately you got these search lights that just light you up that you can’t see and then they’d go off and then one light would go in a direction and you’d go in that direction and then it got me on the right path and there I was. It was radio silence as well, of course, so when you say “darky, darky” you had to do a lot of forms when you got down.