FAA operations in battle of Britain

[kaki3152]

I was just reading a book on the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). The author states that the FAA sent two Sea Hurricane squadrons and 58 fighter pilots to serve under RAF control. I knew about the FAA pilots but did not know about the FAA Sea Hurricane squadrons. Eleven FAA fighter pilots were killed in the battle and 4 were decorated.
Can someone elucidate? Maybe a listing of the eleven KIA FAA pilots?

[Orwell1984]

https://www.fleetairarmoa.org/Conten...AA_amp_BoB.PDF

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/navalair...f-britain/amp/

Great presentation here:

http://cloudobservers.co.uk/wp-conte...-RN-Pilots.pdf

Not sure where you got the information in the OP from but the two FAA squadrons, 804 and 808, were not flying Sea Hurricanes.

[kaki3152]

The information I quoted came from the book "The Disastrous Fall and Triumphant Rise of the Fleet Air Arm" by Henry Hank Adlam, who served as a FAA fighter pilot in WWII.

[keith A]

Sea Hurricanes only arrived on operational strength in 1941. The scored their first victory in the withdrawal from the Kirkenes/Petsamo raid in late July 1942. During the Battle of Britain most of the FAA fighter squadrons were flying Fulmars and Skuas (and Sea Gladiators) in the Mediterranean.

[keith A]

Sorry typo! The first victory was on 30 July 1941.