I have just stumbled on the allied thread:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...r-stories.html
and intrigued to find the barrel-rolling Wing Commander again featured, much as I had heard.
Re. the left glove labelled right [and v-v] I had a colleague who reached high office as a Metman despite being colour-blind. Not good when trying to draw red warm fronts, blue cold'uns, and purple occlusions.
So he always inscribed his officially provided crayons RED, BLUE PURPLE etc. This worked well until someone got at the crayons while he was having a pee.
Did not go down well in Central Forecasting Office.
Incidentally we always reckoned that the official crayons had been free-fall dropped at Arnhem, so broken were they internally. That para. who gets killed in
A Bridge Too Far retrieving a canister of red berets was right next to the one with the crayons.