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, he 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, where he flew the Gloster Gladiator and then the Hawker Hurricane. On the outbreak of the Second World War the squadron was dispatched to France. He began flying operational sorties during the Phoney War and gained his first aerial victory, a German bomber, in November 1939. A second bomber was destroyed days later. In March 1940 he claimed his fifth aerial victory, and became the RAF's first flying ace of the Second World War as we