Reminds me of one of the very few war stories told by my late brother in law. When he was first in Port Moresby, they had no fighter defence, and the Japs came over just about every day. He was one of the crew an antiaircraft emplacement on one of the hills surrounding Moresby. One day a flight of fighter aircraft appeared that did not take evasive action, and they got the lot. Nobody told them to expect a flight of Yank aircraft..... I have no idea how accurate this is, but he said it was hushed up at the time. (He signed up as soon as he was eighteen, and rose to WO1 then back to private before rising to sergeant again by the end of the war. I'm not sure what did - he said it was for refusing to salute an officer he reckoned did not deserve it.)
John
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