Clostermann
My instructor as I went through Valley in 1966 (Mac MacKenzie) had been Pierre Clostermann's No2; he had not one single kind word to say about the man. Apparently he was well known for getting airborne, losing his No2 in cloud and returning to claim all sorts of derring-do with many kills. One day, Mac told me that he returned from a sortie when he had 'lost his leader' to hear Clostermann declaiming his successes to the Int Officer, when one of Clostermann's groundcrew arrived to point out that the canvas patches were still in place over the gun muzzles (he hadn't fired a shot). There were many other stories Mac told me about this French hero.......