I`m currently finding only very small bits on imformation from the net.
The details I have thus are is the it was 1st July 1961, operation vantage. HMS Bulwark landed 42 (and 45 followed later??) commando with hunter and Electric Canberra aircraft in support from UK,Aden, Kenya and Cyprus. "V" force aircraft were on standby in cyrpus.
One source also says that paratroops were sent to reinforce the task force.
They were sent to Kuwait to deter the threat of invasion from Iraqi forces which had gathered on the border. One interesting article is--
(though I haven`t fully studied it yet!)
www.cia.gov/csi/studies/fall_winter_2001/article03.html
If anyone can find/have other info then I`d appreciate it greatly
