The RAF Takes the Piss Out of the Germans

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Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:52:04 +0000
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By Scott Longman

The first time any of us hear this story, we might be forgiven if we immediately think that its origin must have been a bunch of RAF Lancaster crews in a North Yorkshire pub, sometime after they’d exhausted both its entire supply of Guinness and their imaginations. And indeed, a few misguided internet souls still think so. But a military historian named Pierre-Antoine Courouble spent months doing the deep dig, conducting more than 300 interviews and, ultimately, published a...