Winnipeg, Manitoba
277 Squadron. WO. Irvine was killed when his Defiant aircraft N1675 crashed at Broomfield Farm, Meopham Green while on a transfer flight to Reid and Sigrist, Desford, England.
Irvine, Alfred (Warrant Officer 1st Class)
Killed in Action 1943-May-27
Birth Date: 1922
Born:
Son of William G. Irvine and Lillian M. Irvine, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; husband of Hilda Irvine.
Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
277 Sqn- Squadron
Base
Rank
Warrant Officer 1st Class
Position
Warrant Officer 1st Class
Service Numbers
R/95175
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Defiant N1675
Defiant serial: N1675
(RAF Photo) (Source Harold A Skaarup web page)
Boulton Paul P.82 Defiant, RAF (Serial No. L7026), coded PS*V, c1941.
Boulton Paul P.82 Defiant, RAF (Serial No. L7026), coded PS*V, c1941.
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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