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55included in Cynk, Jerzy B; The Polish Air Force at War: the Official History: Volume Two, 1943?1945 (Schiffer Military History, 1998), Appendix 10, p619. 18 TNA FO371/24373: Loose minute of the Allied Administration Committee, June 1940, quoted in Brown, op cit, Note 2, p19. This lists the extensive number of crimes that carried the death penalty in the Polish and Czechoslovak forces; Gelb, Norman; Scramble: a Narrative History of the Battle of Britain (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985), pp48850. 19 Vincent, Air Vice8Marshal Stanley F; Flying Fever (Jarrolds, 1972), pp1018102. 20 TNA AIR2/5196: Employment of Surplus Polish and Czech Fighter Pilots in Fighter Command; Minute by Air Vice8Marshal William Sholto Douglas, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, 29 July 1940. 21 Ibid. 22 RAFM X00386084/213: Diary of Pilot Officer Tom%u00e1s Vybiral; entry for 8 August 1940. 23 Franks, Norman with Muggleton, Simon (ed); A Fighter Pilot%u2019s Call to Arms: Defending Britain and France Against the Luftwaffe, 1940?42 (Grub Street, 2010), p87. I am indebted to Mr Muggleton and Mr Franks for generously allowing me to quote from Pilot Officer Fejfar%u2019s diary before its publication. 24 Ibid, p88. 25 Zamoyski, op cit, p75. See also Olson, Lynne and Cloud, Stanley; For Your Freedom and Ours: the Ko%u015bciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (William Heinemann, 2003), pp1038105; and RAFM X00580968: Interview of Squadron Leader Miroslav Antonin Liskutin covering the period 192881973. 26 The two Czechoslovak fighter squadrons engaged in the Battle of Britain, Nos 310 and 312 Sqns, were established at Duxford on 10 July and 29 August 1940 respectively. The first Polish fighter unit, No 302 (Poznanski) Sqn, was formed at Leconfield on 13 July, while No 303 (Warsaw8Ko%u015bciuszko) Sqn formed at Northolt on 2 August. 27 RAFM X00285661: Typescript diary of Flight Lieutenant John A Kent; entry for 25 July 1940. 28 RAFM DB190: Pilot%u2019s flying log book of Sergeant Antoni Glowacki, 194081945. 29 TNA AIR27/1663: RAF Form 540, Operations Record Book for No 303 Sqn; 194081941. Gretzyngier, Robert; Poles in Defence of Britain, July 1940?June 1941 (Grub Street, 2001), pp45847. Pilot Officer Paszkiewicz claimed a Dornier 17 but parts of the Messerschmitt 110 he in fact destroyed are held by the RAF Museum. 30 Olson and Cloud, op cit, pp1258126; Zumbach, Squadron Leader Jan; On Wings of War: My Life as a Pilot Adventurer (Andre Deutsch, 1975), p68. 31 Deighton, Len; Fighter: the True Story of the Battle of Britain (Jonathan Cape, 1977), pp 19384, 279. 32 Vincent, op cit, p96. 33 After extensive research, Mr Richard King, places 303 Squadron%u2019s actual total at 76 enemy aircraft destroyed. He attributes the disparity to the inadvertent duplication of victories in the heat of combat compounded by poor aircraft recognition and the Poles%u2019 ignorance of English geography. I am indebted to Mr King for his kindness and generosity in sharing this and other information before the publication of his excellent