Alan 'Al' Deere RAF

Alan 'Al' Deere was an RAF fighter pilot who was forced to ditch his Spitfire on the beach at Dunkirk — an episode re-enacted by Tom Hardy in the new film.
The 22-year-old, a pilot officer with 54 Squadron, shot down six Luftwaffe aircraft over the French coast while protecting the evacuation, before being downed on May 28 by the rear gunner of a Dornier bomber, which also crashed.
‘I crash-landed on the beach between Dunkirk and Ostend, wheels up, right on the edge of the water — and the tide was coming in,’ he recalled.
He was knocked unconscious. When he came round, he made his way to a cafe, where a woman dressed his head wound. He then hitched a lift to Dunkirk on an Army lorry.
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