Found an interesting book "Pearl Harbor & The War In The Pacific"

[Peter Laidler]

Not quite the same thing as Seaspriter mentions in his thread but very recently two old and extremely well known personalities have passed away here in the UK and there followed a full page article regarding their 'declared' wartime exploits v their actual exploits. Both were in the RAF as wartime Commissioned Officers and both with very interesting and exacting jobs that even on their own would have made for interesting reading. One, an intelligence officer gathering and collating this that and the other in and around the middle East and the other, a heavy bomber navigator from about 1942 onwards no less....... I mean....., how much more of an exciting and dangerous life can one have I am bound to ask? The sad part is that on those exploits alone they could stand out with the very best of their generation, but they had embellished somewhat their wartime service lives in writing and interviews - just ready for someone to out the truth. So, so sad. But I have to say that it didn't alter my most admiral view of the Navigators academic work