 And a third person, Patrick O’Neill, an Irish doctor, may have served in SS-Sturmbataillon 500.Conversely more than 40,000 Irish fought alongside the British during the war  including the youngest ever RAF Wing Commander in history Fighter ace Paddy Finucane.Éire produced British materiel under contract and was bombed during the war by the Luftwaffe in the Bombing of Dublin in World War II despite Éire's neutral status.