I am proud to have served on 41(F), I have some of my best memories from that time.
We have recently dispanded another fine sqn: 54(F).
The RAF may not have the long history of the other Services, but when you look at sqns like these, what a glorious and fine contribution they have made. And in the summer of 1940 when our country's future was hanging by a thread, the men and machines of these sqns were in the thick of it, dying and fighting and spilling their blood and, in the end, winning. They were fine heroes, but when you speak to them (and I have), they did not know they were being heroic. They just felt lucky if they saw tomorrow.
When I run the country we will reinstate these sqns and the word disbandment will be banned. "Bad Lads army" will be expanded to clean up street crime and the Annual Reception will be called the Battle of Britain Cocktail party. It will all be sponsored by the Chinese.
Jeremy Clarkson will be my minister for political correctness.