In researching the Dunkirk story, "History vs. Hollywood" discovered that while the character Farrier is not directly based on an actual person, his experience most closely resembles that of Alan Christopher "Al" Deere, a New Zealand Spitfire pilot. Farrier's fictional experience is similar. After shooting down several German planes, he was forced to crash-land east of Dunkirk, likely on a Belgian beach. Unlike Deere, Farrier is captured in the closing shots. Deere famously got back to England after punching a Naval officer in the face when he refused to let him on-board. During his combat career, Al was shot down nine times, surviving all incidents, and chronicled his experiences in his autobiography, "Nine Lives".

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