Back in my earlier days when I had the chance to fly with many WWII vets there was a favourite captain I flew with who had lots of great stories, one of which how he used to fly Spitfires but made the mistake of volunteering for Asia duty after VE Day and was assigned Mustangs. Told me on his first Mustang take off in India he lost control of the aircraft and hit a house, killed a cow and was court-martialed, not for writing off the aircraft but for killing the cow.
