Jones, Evan John

Killed in Action 1940-05-29

Male Head

Birth Date: 1909-December

Born:

Home: Toronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAF

Unit

264 Sqn- Squadron

Base

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Sergeant

Service Numbers

744999

264 Sqn.(We Defy) Boulton Paul Defiant I aircraft L6957 damaged by a Bf 110 over France, air gunner Sergeant E.J. Jones (RAF) (Can.) baled out and killed, aircraft returned safely with pilot Pilot Officer S.H.S. Kay (RAF) safe. [FCL identifies Sergeant Jones as a Canadian, CWGC confirms, not in TSGNO].

Boulton Paul Defiant

(RAF Photo) (Source Harold A Skaarup web page)
Boulton Paul P.82 Defiant, RAF (Serial No. L7026), coded PS*V, c1941.
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The Boulton Paul Defiant is a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter", without any fixed forward-firing guns, also found in the Blackburn Roc of the Royal Navy.

In combat, the Defiant was found to be reasonably effective at destroying bombers but was vulnerable to the Luftwaffe's more manoeuvrable, single-seat Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters. The lack of forward-firing armament proved to be a great weakness in daylight combat and its potential was realised only when it was converted to a night fighter. It eventually equipped thirteen squadrons in this role, compared to just two squadrons as a day-fighter. In mid-1942 it was replaced by better performing night-fighters, the Bristol Beaufighter and de Havilland Mosquito.

The Defiant continued to find use in gunnery training, target towing, electronic countermeasures and air-sea rescue. Among RAF pilots it had the nickname "Daffy".Wikipedia





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