Hollywood is truly out of ideas. In the next big film from Michael Mann - "The Few" - he's going to tell us how a single man won the Battle Of Britain. Apparently Billy Fiske is an uber-hero. At least according to Hollywood, who also seem to think we had aircraft just lying around unused, no pilots and were at our knees desperate for help from the Yanks.
Embarrasingly for Hollywood, a few people who worked with the actual Billy Fiske are still alive, and confirm that far from being a hero, he was a less-than-average pilot. He flew a few sorties, mostly as tailguard, and never shot anything down.

Hollywood has a habit of ignoring facts to glorify the deeds of Americans. In the 2000 film U-571, US seamen recovered an Enigma code machine from a sinking German submarine and changed the course of World War II. Enigma was in fact retrieved by the British crew of HMS Bulldog, long before the US was involved. They were late, as usual.

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