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Reach for the...Scotch!

The hip flask that RAF Spitfire ace James 'Johnnie' Johnson carried with him for Dutch Courage during WW2 has come to light after 70 years.

The RAF officer, Britain's most successful wartime fighter pilot, was partial to a drink and was given the silver flask as a wedding present in 1942.

The small receptacle is engraved with his initials 'JEJ' and has a few dents in it, supposedly from where it was knocked about in the cockpit of Johnson's Spitfire.

It is one of several items now being sold by his family at Cheffins Auctioneers of Cambridgeshire.