Relevant to this thread is that The Times has just published the obituary of Sqn Ldr Gerald Stapleton, DFC, who shot down Oberleutnant Franz von Werra in his Me 109 (see post #21 above). Stapleton was one of the many South Africans who flew in the Battle, and was credited with six combat victories. He later commanded a Typhoon squadron after D Day, and was forced to crash land behind German lines after the debris from the steam locomotive he had just destroyed struck his aircraft!