Presuming you know who he was of course........
MY father was a young Fighter Pilot in the so called 'Battle of Britain'.
(For those non Britishers it was in 1940 when Hitler was trying to destroy the Royal Airforce so that his way would be clear for an Invasion of the UK).
Dad was involved in a 'dog fight' with some German planes over the English Channel. It was only his second such battle, when he was shot down my a famous German Ace called Adolph Galland.
He bailed out, but was machine gunned on the way down by another German plane.
in 1961, I was commisioned by Southern TV to make a documentary film
(my first) about German Air Aces and I met Galland who told me how hard my Dad tried to get him off the tail of his Spitfire, and how angry he was at the way he was killed.
Sadly, he was one of the many brave young men who died then, when Britain stood alone.
We should be proud of all of them. But, I am particularly proud of Dad.
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
Winston Churchill.