Cryptic clue

[Thunder]

Another one,

“You’ll be surprised that this base isn’t as windy as one would expect....?”

[slogen51]

While you Cogitate on the above here is a simple one!

From here : Lifters trailed over the sea but not over me.( As by the time I started in 1972, they had already converted the year before.)

[slogen51]

Another one,

“You’ll be surprised that this base isn’t as windy as one would expect....?”

Cuatro Vientos ( five winds) - boom!

[Thunder]

Cuatro is Spanish for four, a great answer though so much that I’m tempted to give you it..... but no

This base is in the USA.

[Alf]

While you Cogitate on the above here is a simple one!

From here : Lifters trailed over the sea but not over me.( As by the time I started in 1972, they had already converted the year before.)

Dover...

[Alf]

Another one,

“You’ll be surprised that this base isn’t as windy as one would expect....?”

Coningsby?… they have a lot of typhoons!!

[rh226]

Another one,

“You’ll be surprised that this base isn’t as windy as one would expect....?”

Beaufort.......the wind scale.

I should have got that a lot earlier. Dad was a meteorologist.

[Thunder]

Correct rh226

[slogen51]

Cuatro is Spanish for four, a great answer though so much that I’m tempted to give you it..... but no

This base is in the USA.

Sorry I meant four winds - Cuatro Vientos is literally four winds , thought I had it .

Dover was correct to an earlier hidden answer.

[slogen51]

Ok I can crow bar in anagrams as blatantly as the next person.

These days you need to mix a Germ Trasher Pie to beat this famous squadron!

[Nighthawke]

The Grim Reapers

[slogen51]

Correct

Far too easy!

[slogen51]

This famous squadron could be the mud stars?

[Tiger 1]

Bambusters.

T1

[Tiger 1]

What a shame this ex RAF Base isn't a patch on what it was before?

T1

[slogen51]

Bambusters.

T1

Correct - The Dam Busters for the full anagram

One more for fun!?
This well known USAF Squadron had threats met with force.

[Thunder]

What a shame this ex RAF Base isn't a patch on what it was before?

T1

Wattisham ?

[slogen51]

Of course Wattisham it must be plus the a patch sounds like Apache

(My USAF squadron clue above is another anagram)

[Tiger 1]

Thunder... correct

Slogen51... you picked up on the … a patch... well done sir

Still working on your anagram.

T1

[Thunder]

One more for fun!?
This well known USAF Squadron had threats met with force.

The Madhatters?