True story?
Many years ago, I was told by an ATCO the tale of when as a trainee at a smallish East Anglian airfield in the 1960’s, a call came from a neighbouring American airbase. They had a flight of fighters (Sabres, I presume) very low on fuel and requested that they over-fly his airfield at low level. Certainly! So, he loaded his Very pistol, intending to fire a red flare to send off the solitary non-radio aircraft in the circuit. But, mistakenly, he fired a green. At that moment, the flight of four turned up, obviously desperate, saw some tarmac, a green flare, - and so landed, - all four of them overrunning.
A recovery team was sent out to dismantle and retrieve the aircraft, at the conclusion of which they good-naturedly awarded a Very cartridge mounted on a plaque with an inscription celebrating his achievement in shooting down four aircraft with one bullet!
Any elucidation?