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45German aircraft for eight pilots killed. Flight Lieutenant Gordon Sinclair, a Flight Commander with 310 Squadron, wrote of his comrades: %u2018The Czechs were totally disciplined. They did what was expected of them, though not necessarily what they were told to do, because they knew sort of instinctively what they were supposed to do.%u201939 He would later add: %u2018I have nothing but praise for my fellow Czech pilots%u2026I personally found it tremendously comforting in battle to have such pilots around me.%u201940 Dowding admitted he was wrong about the Slavs writing: %u2018I must confess that I had been a little doubtful of the effect which their experience in their own countries and in France might have had upon the Polish and Czech pilots, but my doubts were soon laid to rest, because all three squadrons (two Pilots of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, Duxford, September 1940. (RAF Museum)