Oldgit, sorry it wasn’t your cup of tea. Steve, you’re intuition is uncanny! Actually I was rather pleased as the XIV has always been a favourite of mine. I remember how, according to Clostermann, the Tempest V and Spitfire pilots verbally gave each other stick, tongue in cheek mind. And, of course, know, it’s all academic. They were all brave men and the attrition rate right to the end was terrible.