Ireland
There were more than 13 aces from Ireland during the Second World War.
- Brendan Eamonn Fergus Finucane RAF No.13 No.65 & No.602 Sqn, Hornchurch Wing; RCAF No.19 & No.452 Sqn; KIA 15/Jul/1942
- John Martin Bruen FAA 5 801, 759, 803, 778, 800 & 836Sq
- John Ignatus Kilmartin RAF 12.33 1, 43, 602, 313, 128 & 504Sq, Hornchurch Wing, 136 Wing, 910 Wing
- James Reginald Bryan Meaker RAF 8 46, 263 & 249Sq; KIA 27/Sep/1940
- Rupert Frederick Smythe RAF 6 29, 504 & 32Sq
- Robert Wilkinson Turkington RAF 9.16 124, 611, 43, 72, 241 & 601Sq; KIFA Apr/1945
Read more about this topic: List Of World War II Aces By Country
Famous quotes containing the word ireland:
“They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That’s not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It’s just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.”
—Dodie Smith, and Lewis Allen. Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland)
“Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Out of Ireland have we come,
Great hatred, little room
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother’s womb
A fanatic’s heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)