The tragedy of the German aircraft crashing into a mountain is something that words cannot describe really.
It worries me slightly that I started thinking of Stan Boardman from many many moons ago when he appeared on the old TV chat show 'Des O'Connor Tonight'.
O'Connor asked Boardman (a Liverpool comedian) why he clearly hated the Germans so much as, in his act, he invariably slagged them off.
"Well you see Des" he replied, "my dad was a Spitfire pilot in the war and he got badly hurt. A squadron of German Focke's flew over his airfield and badly bombed it. My dad was the only Spitfire to make it into the air and he took on the Focke's single handedly getting badly wounded in the process"
"Really? Tell me more" said the naive O'Connor.
"Well", continued Boardman, "my dad flew alone into this squadron of Focke's and opened up his guns. There was a Focker falling here and a Focker falling there....."
"Just a moment Stan" said O'Connor, "this is an early evening show so I need to make sure the audience and viewers understand that a Focke IS a make of German aircraft"
"That's right" said Boardman, "but these Focke's were Messerschmidt's!!!!"
This is not verbatim but a general remembrance of more or less what happened on the show.
Well, it made me laugh anyway.
Besides? DILLIGAF?
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