Boulton Paul Defiants by Barry Price. ART1015 the first enemy aircraft shot

the first enemy aircraft shot down in WW2 fell to a Skua

and the record for the highest number of enemy aircraft shot down in a single mission - in excess of 50 - during a great air battle on 14th January 1945

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But the RAF had in turn developed their own detection equipment

Although the general's body is not found

Boulton Paul Defiants by Barry Price. ART1015 the first enemy aircraft shotN84. Boulton Paul Defiants by Barry Price. On 8 December 1939 at Martlesham Heath, 264 Squadron was reformed and equipped with the new Boulton Paul Defiant fighter. In March 1940 the squadron started operations doing convoy patrols. After initial successes the Luftwaffe soon realised that the Defiant was vulnerable to frontal attack, and 264 Squadron along with the other Boulton Paul Defiant squadrons started to suffer heavy losses of aircraft and