Friendly Ordinance.
"Friendly Ordinance" (Beer Run to Normandy) by Ronald Wong
Factory Fresh Spitfire Mk IXe's make their way to the forward airfields of Normandy carrying kegs of beer. The English brewery of Heneger and Constable donated fresh beer for the troops fighting in Normandy, and someone (Johnny Johnson himself? Maybe but probably some beer-lovin Canuck in his wing, like Buck McNair ;^) came up with the idea of strapping the beer kegs to the underwings of the Spitfires that were being shipped to the forward airfields. The troops loved the freshly delivered, cold beer, but as with all good things, the British Ministry of Revenue and Excise stepped in and notified the brewery that it was in violation of the law in that it was exporting beer without paying the taxes on it. And that was the end of that. Read a short, first-hand account by Lloyd Berryman about a beer run he was on, here
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