What a good little vignette BA, thanks for posting.
In a peaceful glade, high in the Wicklow mountains south of Dublin, there is a small German war cemetery for those sailors & airmen who were not so fortunate.
As a 100% full-blooded, Guinness-swilling, ballad-singing (ex-RAF) Mick, I am hugely proud of Wing Commander Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane of Dublin. When he was shot down (by ground fire) in 1942, he was a 21yr-old Wg Cdr/OC Hornchurch Spitfire Wing, with 26 confirmed victories. I am sure that he would have become the top-scoring RAF ace of WW2, had he survived. His No1 uniform is on display at the RAF Museum, Hendon.
Erin go Bragh!
HB