Percy Pickard (Gp Capt on the Amien Prison Raid) didn't have a reputation for being an @rse, yet he certainly fits alongside many of the heroes of Jacko's list and was one of the most famous airmen of the war years. Indeed, whilst he didn't receive a VC for Op JERICHO, the French were so certain that he deserved one ahead of other VC recipients that they initially marked the award on his gravestone, convinced that it would be awarded.