Charles Bronson (prisoner) who called for an inquiry into how the recording had been made. Bronson had initially been refused access to the film, but on 15 November 2011 he was granted permission to view it. Describing it as "theatrical, creative and brilliance", he heaped praise upon Tom Hardy, who portrayed him. He disagreed on the distance suggested in the film between himself and his father, and of the portrayal of fight promoter Paul Edmunds (played by Matt King as Paul Daniels) as "a bit of a ponce". Charles Bronson (prisoner) Charles Arthur "Charlie" Salvador (formerly Charles Ali Ahmed; born Michael Gordon Peterson
Non-British personnel in the RAF during the Battle of Britain were among the most experienced in the Battle; most had hundreds of hours of pre-war flying experience and had fought in the 1939 Defensive War and/or the Battle of France. The Polish pilots had been well trained in formation flying and had learned from combat experience to fire from close range. By comparison, one Polish pilot referred to the close formation flying and set-piece attacks practiced in the RAF as "simply suicidal". The 147 Polish pilots claimed 201 aircraft shot down. 303 Squadron claimed the highest number of kills (126) of all Allied squadrons engaged in the Battle of Britain.