Fact · Benbecula
The Home Guard was ordered to recapture Benbecula airport from imaginary Germans
During the Second World War a Home Guard platoon from North Uist was ordered to simulate retaking Benbecula airfield from invading Germans. The war poet Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna was in it, and wrote a song taking the mickey.
Benbecula's airfield was built in the war and is still used for air ambulance flights and the missile range as well as the Glasgow service. During the war, the Gaelic war poet Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, who had fought at the Somme, served in the Home Guard. He composed Òran a' Home Guard, The Song of the Home Guard, which pokes fun at an exercise in which a platoon from North Uist was ordered to recapture the airfield from the invading Germans. He had gone to school at Carinish and wrote a song about that too.
Sources / notes: Wikipedia: Benbecula Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benbecula_Airport Wikipedia: Carinish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinish