On 8th October 1939, a Lockheed Hudson reconnaissance aircraft, patrolling the area near Jutland, shot down a Dornier Do 18 flying boat. It was the first air victory in the World War II achieved by [...]
A minor point, the first British air victory of WW2 by an aircraft flying from the UK was in fact a Hawker Hurricane shot down by a Supermarine Spitfire on 6 September 1939, three days after the war began, in an incident that has become known as the Battle of Barking Creek.
56 Squadron RAF (MOD) Warfare is by definition, a pretty grim business but one of it's most tragic aspects is the so called 'Friendly...
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The first enemy aircraft to be shot down by a British aircraft was a Dornier Do 18 at the hands of a Blackburn Skua flying from the carrier Ark Royal, on 26 September 1939, with the thread starter incident taking place as the first enemy aircraft shot down by a British aircraft flying from UK shores.