“[T]he Kittyhawk Mk.I was not an easy aircraft to fly properly and, as a result, we lost a good number of pilots while training. Some Hurricane pilots just flatly refused to fly it, preferring to go back to the Hurricane squadrons. In the first few months after conversion to Kittyhawks, all the squadrons lost heavily to the 109s."   -- Wing Commander J F Edwards DFC* DFM     "The air war in Africa favoured the "experts" to a high degree. The wing men, "Kaczmeraks"*, and