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FAA operations in battle of Britain
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? |
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Re: FAA operations in battle of Britain
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. |
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Re: FAA operations in battle of Britain
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.
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Re: FAA operations in battle of Britain
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.
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Re: FAA operations in battle of Britain
Sorry typo! The first victory was on 30 July 1941.
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