| Well, after all of that, couldn't find the anecdote and can't remember what it was! Sooo, here's something from Roy Nesbit's The Armed Rovers, Chapter 2:
Referring to the Italians' repsect for the Beaufighter:
With their strongly developed sense of the dramatic, the Italians named the aircraft "il flagello di Dio", the scourge of God.
Referring to a strike on Nov 16, 1941:
...three Beaufighters took off for an attack on Tmimi aerodrome...The pilots flew in Coastal Command style, at about twenty feet, but it was the desert beneath them and not the sea
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