Don't forget the Kiwis!
Flattus referred to the flight of seven Hurricanes from a frozen lake in Norway out to the carrier HMS Glorious on which they performed their first ever deck landing in a Hurricane , which was of course not equipped with any means of stopping other than brakes and the wind! Quite a feat. Glorious unfortunately ran into the two German ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenhau and was sunk by gunfire, and there were only two survivors from the RAF: the CO,Sqn Ldr Cross and Fl Lt Jameson.
Jameson was a Kiwi and a strong swimmer and saved a few seamen, but most of them died of exposure. He later became Air Commodore Jameson, having stayed on in the RAF and though borne in NZ, it seemed he was a descendant of the Jameson Whiskey family and inherited a castle in Ireland! He lived in it for a while too, before deciding it was too cold and damp and returned to New Zealand in the 1980s.
I met him a few times socially because we lived not far from each other, and though not of his generation, I knew who he was and his background, and found him a lovely and very unassuming guy who didn't think he was in any way exceptional.
He died a few years ago.