I would be better if he used authentic RAF Banter....
"Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie."
Pubs are like magnets to Englishmen. If he had been Irish, he would have landed on the roof!
Wow! His story should be made into a movie. But, of course, unless they can find a way to make this hero and England look bad none of the Pedowood crowd would be interested on making such a movie.
This guy was in the thick of it:
May 11, 1940: Crash lands in the Netherlands; walks for three days back to base.
August 18, 1940: Hit off the Essex coast and rescued from the sea.
August 26, 1940: Plummets 10,000ft before parachuting onto Essex marshland.
May 13, 1941: Parachute fails to open properly — he lands in a dung heap in the garden of the poet Walter de la Mare.
July 29, 1942: Heading to London to receive his DFC from the King, his RAF bomber crashes during take-off.
April 23, 1945: Bails out over enemy territory in Italy, chased and shot at by Germans, but led to safety by a six-year-old girl.
CO: "Damn Paddy, you've had five already..."
This airman definitely had an angel on his shoulder.
Good thing his planes never had co-pilots, with his luck with the planes, doubtful he’d be able to find anyone to fly with him........LOL!
When we went to the USS Yorktown with the Cub Scouts a few years ago, my teenage daughter was looking at the photographs and asked, “Why was everyone in World War II so CUTE?!” If she saw the pictures of Group Captain Paddy and his chums, she might ask again.
I have a photo on the refrigerator of my late father and some of his shipmates from 1969. They’re cute, too.