Originally Posted by Tankertrashnav
I've posted this elsewhere recently, but one of our Victors lost a hose on a night RAF Germany towline c1972 (sod's law one of the few overland towlines). Was found in gardens in the suburbs of Bremen. There wasn't much damage caused and there was no particular comeback as I recall. The only one I remember, but the above posts show this wasn't a unique occurrence.
An ex-OC BBMF of recent times knocked one off of a Victor over Germany with his Lightning in 1974.... there's a photo of him posing with the remnants of it around his neck after it was retrieved from a farmers field some weeks later.