Billy Bishop
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Billy Bishop 🇨🇦

Air Marshal William Avery Bishop (Known as "Billy Bishop")
Top Canadian First World War Flying Ace, Victoria Cross Recipient
Born Feb 08, 1894 🇨🇦 Owen Sound (Ontario), Canada
Passed Away Sep 11, 1956 Palm Beach (Florida), United States
Lifespan 62 years old
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"The sky was our arena, and every flight was a duel with fate."

Archival Overview

Legendary WWI fighter ace officially credited with seventy-two air victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war and recipient of the Victoria Cross.

Biographical Record

Born in Owen Sound, Bishop attended the Royal Military College before joining the cavalry and transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915. Flying Nieuport 17 and S.E.5a fighters on the Western Front, his aggressive, instinctive shooting made him a deadly aerial combatant.

On June 2, 1917, Bishop carried out a solo pre-dawn attack on a German aerodrome behind enemy lines, shooting down three enemy planes as they scrambled to take off, earning the Victoria Cross. During World War II, he served as Air Marshal directing recruitment for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Greenwood Cemetery
Owen Sound (Ontario), Canada
GPS: 44.5500, -80.9500
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