Wolf, Hiram

Killed in Action 1942-01-01

Birth Date: 1921

Born:

Son of William J. and Dora (ne Rosenthal) of West Los Angles, California, U.S.A.

Home: Peaks Island, USA

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

96 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Nocturni Obambulamus We stalk by night

Base

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/77476

96 Squadron (Noctumi Obam Bulamus). Sergeant Wolf was killed when he flew his Defiant aircraft M 3432 into a hillside in mist two miles north-east of the Appelthwaite Quarry, Windermere, England.

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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