Is it just a British thing to revel in our past successes? Or do other countries do similar.
The following are descriptions of two adverts for a particular beer in here in Britian.
Apologies in advance to Walther, but I think you’ll appreciate them none the less!!! 
The beer is “Carling Black Label”, the adverts generally centre around a man doing something remarkable, and someone saying “bet he drinks Carling Black Label”, cue jingle and a picture of the said beverage at the end.
In the first one it is set at a Spanish resort. The British man (looking handsome, rugged etc think Pierce Brosnan as Bond) steps out on to his balcony first thing in the morning.
He looks down and sees a horde of German middle aged men, with big pot bellies, shorts, sandels, etc. going to sieze the Sun loungers (sorry for the steriotype Walther!!), calm as anything he goes inside his room, comes out with rolled up Union Flag towel and promptly throws it.
At this point the theme from the Dambusters film comes on and the towel bounces along the pool. The Germans rush to get to the sun loungers, some diving in to the pool to grab the towel.
The towel then lands on a lounger, and unrolls to reveal the British flag in all it splendor. Inside there is a can of Carling Black Label which slides in to a ice bucket.
The Brit has claimed the sun lounger!!!
In the 2nd advert, actual film footage from the Dambusters film is used to portray a slightly altered view of the attack.
A Lancaster approaches the Dam, flying low along the reservoir. A German sentry spots it and jumps with shock.
The Lanc then drops its bomb. On seeing this the sentry throws away his rifle and adopts a goal keeper stance.
The bomb bounces in and the sentry saves it, with a football crowd style cheer in the back ground. The pilot and flight engineer in the Lanc are a bit miffed. They talk to each other in unintelligible phrases as the viewer hears it as if it is over the intercom.
The lancaster goes around for another pass.
Another bomb is realeased. The sentry saves it, to another cheer. Again the pilot and flight engineer in the Lanc are a bit miffed.
The lancaster goes around for yet another pass (point to note, the actual bombers only carried one bomb each!!!)
This time 5 bombs are dropped at once, and off they go bouncing towards the dam.
The sentry saves all 5 diving left, and right and all uber der platz to catch them all, cheers on each one.
It then cuts to the pilot and flt engr again. This time, the pilot pulls his face mask off, and says to the engr “I bet he drinks Carling Black Label!!”
The engr pulls his face mask off and responds with an unintelligble reply that makes it sound like he is talking on the radio still, even though he has removed his mask and thus should talk normally!!!
Can anyone else tell of any adverts relating to WW2 from their countrys?