I Wish I Hadn't Said That ...

[Jetex Jim]

I used to know a bloke who said his one claim to fame was having a father who was a Battle of Britain ace. Anyone who hadn't heard the story would ask for more information, to which he would spin a yarn or two before admitting his dad had been in the Luftwaffe!

This may be the same story, only slightly embellished:

A BBC documentary team at a certain Scottish base, many years ago,
- listening to voice tapes of intercepts. This guy spots the target at two miles range, dead ahead. Calls “Tally Ho”

- BBC lady, in rather snooty voice, says, “Why do these people talk as though they were in the Battle of Britain.”

Escorting officer says, “Because some of them were, allow me to introduce you to Major Winter, on exchange from the Luftwaffe.”