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Canty, Malcolm Allen (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1941-December-11

Birth Date: 1920 (age 21)

I. Leslie & Gertrude B. Canty

Home: Hebron, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia (parents)

Service
RCAF
Unit
250 (F) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Close To The Sun
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Marshal
Air Chief MarshalA/C/M
Air MarshalA/M
Air Vice MarshalA/V/M
Air CommodoreA/C
Group CaptainG/C
Wing CommanderW/C
Squadron LeaderS/L
Flight LieutenantF/L
Flying OfficerF/O
Pilot OfficerP/O
Warrant Officer 1st ClassWO1
Warrant Officer 2nd ClassWO2
Flight SergeantFS
SergeantSGT
CorporalCPL
Senior AircraftmanSAC
Leading AircraftmanLAC
Aircraftman 1st ClassAC1
Aircraftman 2nd ClassAC2
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/62966

250 Squadron RAF Flight Sergeant M A Canty RCAF was killed when his Tomahawk Mk IIB aircraft AN-344 was shot down by an enemy aircraft thirty miles south-west of Tobruk, Libya.

Flight Sergeant Canty has no known grave and is commemorated on the Alamein War Memorial.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Flight Sergeant Malcolm Allen Canty has no known grave.

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Column 246

Tomahawk AN344

Curtiss Tomahawk

Source: Harold A Skaarup Web Page (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3224107)
RCAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawks in formation over the West Coast, 11 Nov 1942

The Curtiss P-40 (known as the Warhawk in the USA) is single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938.  The British Commonwealth air forces including the RCAF, and the Soviet air forces used the name Tomahawk for models equivalent to the P-40B and P-40C, and the name Kittyhawk for models equivalent to the P-40D and all later variants.  The P-40 was in frontline service until the end of the Second World War.  It was the third most-produced American fighter of the war after the P-51 and P-47, with 13,738 being built in Buffalo, New York.  Based on war-time victory claims, over 200 Allied fighter pilots from 7 different nations (Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, South Africa, the Soviet Union and the United States) became aces flying the P-40.  A total of 13 RCAF units operated the Kittyhawk in the North West European or Alaskan theatres.

In mid-May 1940, Canadian and US officers watched comparative tests of a XP-40 and a Spitfire, at RCAF Station Uplands, Ottawa, Ontario.  While the Spitfire was considered to have performed better, it was not available for use in Canada and the P-40 was ordered to meet home air defense requirements.  In all, eight Home War Establishment Squadrons were equipped with the Kittyhawk: 72 Kittyhawk Mk. I, 12 Kittyhawk Mk. Ia, 15 Kittyhawk Mk. III and 35 Kittyhawk Mk. IV aircraft, for a total of 134 aircraft.  These aircraft were mostly diverted from RAF Lend-Lease orders for service in Canada.  The Kittyhawks were obtained in lieu of 144 Bell P-39 Airacobras originally allocated to Canada but reassigned to the RAF. Harold A Skaarup Web Page

General Harold A Skaarup Web Page

Wkikpedia Wikipedia Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk

YouTube YouTube Two Curtiss P-40 fighters – low and loud

last update: 2021-09-14 17:45:33

Tomahawk Mk. IIB AN344



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