Irving Farmer Kennedy
Military Person
1922 – 2011
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Who was Irving Farmer Kennedy?
Irving Farmer Kennedy DFC was a Canadian fighter pilot in the RCAF during World War II. He was one of Canada’s highest-scoring aces of the war, with 10 solo and 5 shared aircraft destroyed, and 1 probably destroyed.
Born in Cumberland, Ontario in 1922 to Eva Farmer and Robert James Kennedy, he grew up a strait-laced young man who believed it was his duty to serve. The war started when he was 17 in his final year of high school in Ottawa, and he joined the RCAF in October 1940.
He did his flight training in Canada at No.2 ITS
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