RAF pilot Tim Vigors told a story in his memoir, Life’s Too Short to Cry, of the time he was shot down during the Battle of Britain.
He managed to get his crippled Spitfire down without being injured, but he wound up facing the way he came, in a backyard garden of a London house, a garden small enough that what was left of his Spitfire barely fit.
Just after the dust settled, as he opened the cockpit, and was starting to come to terms with still being alive, the back door of the house opened and a woman brought him a cup of tea. “I thought you might need this,” she told him.
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