Defiants [x11]264 Squadron.1940

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On 8 December 1939 the squadron was reformed at Martlesham Heath to bring the Boulton Paul Defiant fighter into service. Operations began in March 1940 when the squadron started convoy patrols. After initial successes the Luftwaffe soon realised that the Defiant was vulnerable to frontal attack, and the squadron started to have heavy losses of aircraft and crew. At the end of May 1940 the squadron was withdrawn from operations as a day-fighter squadron and began to train in the night-fighter role. It was called into action again in the day fighting role at the height of the Battle of Britain but again suffered losses and returned to the night-fighter role. After a number of moves around England, including Luton Airport. In May 1942 the squadron moved to RAF Colerne to operate the de Havilland Mosquito II, later trading them in for the later Mark VI.
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[E.F.Hartmann]

Whoua really beautiful thank you .

[major_setback]

Thanks!
Very nice skins.
Tidy work too!!

[No1 Cheese]

BOOOOOOOOOTIFUL!!!!!!

Oh to have these flyable.
Great job mate,thanks.

Cheese

[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

Just perfect Keith......absolutely perfect,thanks mate

[Moggy]

Pure Defiant filth, love it!

Thanks for taking the time to create and upload these skins CMS. That's the third time i've used those initials today and it's only 10:30 in the morning!

[acred99]

Hi Keith
Nice skins mate8.
Wish you could fly these puppies suppose we'll have to wait for the mod's haha..
I have a photo of PS-P although it's in night fighter colors

Keith on this screen shot you can see the aerial has two colors. I think there may be a slight template error!

http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Defiant/M...-1940-V02.html


http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Defiant/M...land-1940.html
On your PS-L you have the serial as L7003 was this real I haven't been able to dig any info on it other than the photo's

http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Defiant/M...d-1940-02.html
PS-R

http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Defiant/M...d-1940-01.html
PS-A PS-T PS-V

http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Defiant/M...late-1939.html
Matthew
www.asisbiz.com

[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

acred,

Yes L7003 PS-L was for real,during the Dunkirk evacuation 264 Squadron had it's moment of glory,and on the 28th May 1940 L7003 shot down a Bf109,it was piloted by Plt Off Michael Young,the gunner was LAC S B Johnson.

This before the 109 pilots realised there was a gun turret mounted on the plane,thinking it was just another Hurricane,imagine their shock when coming up on the Defiants six and being presented with four Browning's staring at them!

They sooned changed tactics on attacking Defiants and during the Battle of Britain would come up to attack from below,thus rendering the Defiant helpless.

During this early period the RAF adopted the half black,half sky colours on the underneath of their aircraft wings,during the Battle of Britain they then resorted to the underneath of the wings being painted back to Sky,or Eau De Nil,although on some aircraft the order to repaint was not undertaken,due probably to the ground crews being somewhat busy!!

All information was taken from two great books,Defiant,Blenheim and Havoc Aces by Andrew Thomas,and the best one,Mark Ansell's superb book Boulton Paul Defiant.

[kristorf]

Very nice

[checkmysix]

Cheers Guys