Thanks for that Steve it gave a good inside as well as being funny cheers\ said:Some audio here of Johnnie Johnson and Douglas Bader at a BCATP reunion in Canada in the 1970s. Bader relates the well known story of his arrival at "two hundred and forty two squadron, brackets, Canadian, brackets, Royal Air Force".
The BCATP was the WW 2 British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Many airmen were trained under its auspices in Canada and other Commonwealth countries.
http://spaads-reunion.ca/trivia/aceshigh.mp3
Cheers
Steve