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Edgar James Kain, DFC (27 June 1918 – 7 June 1940) was a New Zealand fighter pilot and flying ace who flew in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. Born in Hastings, New Zealand, Kain developed an early interest in aviation and joined the RAF in 1936. He completed his flight training the following year and was posted to the RAF's No. 73 Squadron, flying the Gloster Gladiator and then the Hawker Hurricane. On the outbreak of the Second World War the squadron was dispatched to France. Kain began flying operational sorties during the Phoney War and gained his first aerial victory, a German bomber, in November 1939. He claimed his fifth aerial victory in March 1940, becoming the RAF's first flying ace of the Second World War as well as its first recipient of the Distinguished

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  • إدغار كاين (ar)
  • Edgar Kain (en)
  • Edgar Kain (fr)
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  • إدغار كاين (بالإنجليزية: Edgar James "Cobber" Kain)‏ هو طيار مقاتل نيوزيلندي، ولد في 27 يونيو 1918 في هاستينجس في نيوزيلندا، وتوفي في 7 يونيو 1940 في Échemines ‏ في فرنسا. (ar)
  • Edgar James Kain, DFC (27 June 1918 – 7 June 1940) was a New Zealand fighter pilot and flying ace who flew in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. Born in Hastings, New Zealand, Kain developed an early interest in aviation and joined the RAF in 1936. He completed his flight training the following year and was posted to the RAF's No. 73 Squadron, flying the Gloster Gladiator and then the Hawker Hurricane. On the outbreak of the Second World War the squadron was dispatched to France. Kain began flying operational sorties during the Phoney War and gained his first aerial victory, a German bomber, in November 1939. He claimed his fifth aerial victory in March 1940, becoming the RAF's first flying ace of the Second World War as well as its first recipient of the Distinguished (en)
  • Edgar James Kain, né le 27 juin 1918 à Hastings (Nouvelle-Zélande) et mort le 7 juin 1940 à Échemines, est un pilote de chasse et as de l'aviation néo-zélandais, ayant fait carrière dans la Royal Air Force (RAF) durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. (fr)
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  • Edgar James Kain (en)
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  • Cobber (en)
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  • Edgar James Kain (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flying_Officer_E_J_Kain_of_No_73_Squadron,_standing_in_the_cockpit_of_his_Hawker_Hurricane_Mark_I_at_Rouvres..jpg
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Royal_Air_Force-_France,_1939-1940._C1147_(crop).jpg
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Royal_Air_Force_1939-1945-_the_RAF_in_France,_1940_C1148.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Royal_Air_Force_in_France,_1939-1940._C1291.jpg
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  • Échemines, France (en)
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  • Hastings, New Zealand (en)
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