Thanks Beags, interesting.
As for Bader, I have a healthy but grudging respect for him. What I do find odd is that he insisted on "a collsion with a Me 109" was how his war finished. Always stuck to the story. However, RAF records show him to have been shot down. When I watched Hamish's great 'movie' Johnny Johnson mentioned to Bader that he had been shot down, Bader retorted with "when I went down" - apparently still not prepared to say he was shot down. Pride can be a nasty mate sometimes. Galland too says that Bader was shot down.