Excellent thread which I stumbled across by accident - has kept me up all hours reading all the way through it.
One tale I was surprised I did not see. Not sure of the truth to it, but it was doing the rounds not long after it was supposed to have happened. I think it was even in some news articles, as much as that lends any credibility.
Story goes sometime shortly after "mission accomplished" was declared in Iraq II, well after the disappearance of any sort of Iraqi air forces. A RAF Chinook was doing one of its runs when over excited US ground forces opened up on it. The pilot takes action, then comes around and lands right next to the offending unit. Out hops the steaming mad pilot who charges over and starts laying into the grunt:
"WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW A F--KING IRAQI HELICOPTER!".
The news article described the pilot as "someone who did not suffer fools well".