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57Cynk, Volume One, op cit, Chapter One. Both Mr Pezke and Mr Cynk highlight the achievement of the Polish fighter pilots in destroying so many enemy aircraft while flying inferior machines and operating without the benefit of an integrated air defence system. Mr Cynk also states that the PAF pilots underestimated the number of their victories. 53 Listemann, op cit, p6. 54 The language barrier could also prove dangerous and during the Battle at least one Polish pilot was lynched by angry civilians who mistook him for a German; see Bickers, Richard Townshend; Friendly Fire: Accidents in Battle from Ancient Greece to the Gulf War (Leo Cooper, 1994), pp71872. 55 RAFM MFC77/16/25: Air Ministry Form 1180 for Hurricane W9147, 18 September 1941. The Gestapo agent, Augustin P%u0159eu%u010dil, was at the controls of this aircraft and contrived his escape to Belgium after pretending to crash into the North Sea during a practice dogfight with a Polish sergeant pilot. The Pole%u2019s use of the R/T was indirectly criticised by the Court of Inquiry. 56 Lisiewicz; Squadron Leader M (ed); Destiny Can Wait: the Polish Air Force in the Second World War (William Heinemann, 1949), p 52. 57 Darlington, Roger; Night Hawk: the Biography of Flight Lieutenant Karel Kuttelwascher DFC, the RAF%u2019s Greatest Night Intruder Ace (William Kimber, 1985), p39. 58 Zamoryski, op cit, p58. 59 Olson and Cloud, op cit, pp1458146. 60 Cynk, Volume One, op cit, p190. 61 Interview with Wing Commander Ronald Kellet, The City of London Squadron Magazine, 1965. 62 Zamoyski, op cit, p 92. 63 Collier, Richard; Eagle Day: the Battle of Britain, August 6?September 15, 1940(Hodder and Stoughton, 1966), p261. 64 Dear, I C B and Foot, M R D (ed); The Oxford Companion to the Second World War (OUP, 1995), p896. 65 Destiny Can Wait, op cit, p61. 66 The Oxford Companion to the Second World War, pp2798280. 67 Sarkar, Dilip; The Fe the Story of the Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots (Amberley, 2009), p173. 68 Olson and Cloud, op cit, p154. 69 RAFM: Intelligence Patrol Report for No.303 (Polish) Squadron, 2 September 1940. 70 Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum A.V.49/34/4: 303 Squadron Chronicle, 7 April 1941.