RAF pilot Douglas Bader lost both his legs while showing off performing stunts in his Bristol Bulldog in 1931...His entry in his own logbook to describe the incident merely referred to it as a "bad show"...After being fitted with metal legs, and not only learning to walk again, but becoming a four handicap golfer, he went on to serve in the RAF again when war broke out in 1939...During combat he was credited with downing 22 enemy aircraft before being shot down himself, and becoming a prisoner of war for the duration...Making life hell for his captors with his escapes, he was eventually confined to Colditz castle, the German version of a maximum security POW prison...He even earned the friendship and respect of Luftwaffe Gen. Adolph Galland, himself a fighter ace, who arranged to have the RAF drop new legs to replace the prisoner's damaged limbs...Following the war he returned to his business life, and was later featured in an episode of "This Is Your Life"...Today his name lives on, not only in history books, but also in the charity he established which teaches the disabled how to contend with the lemons life has handed them......Ben"I was lucky in the war, and got much publicity not because I was any better than the others but because I was the chap with the tin legs."