They were very small bombs. The Dover raid on Christmas Day was actually Nr 203's second attempt to bomb England; it appeared off Dover at 13:00 on...
The FF29 was a pre-war small patrol floatplane. Aside from the occasional small bombload, it was unarmed. Gareth
He was Oberleutnant-zur-See Stephan Prondzynski of See Flieger Abteilung 1. On 25 December 1914 he was flying Friedrichshafen FF29 Nr 203, with...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has an interesting development on its website, an interactive account of the first day of the Gallipoli...
Annie Thanks for that. Gareth
It's not a unique occurrence, as I discovered when researching the men of the AFC who died in or after the War. Martin, Lieutenant Charles Henry,...
Ah! The Sound of Music - a mate of mine once said that it was the only film that he'd watched where he hoped that the Nazis would win. Gareth
The Battle started off with the RFC enjoying air supremacy, with its FE 2b and DH 2 fighters being more than a match for the German Fokker...
The book to look for is Gordon Corrigan's Sepoys in the Trenches, ISBN 1 86227 054 6. It's a very readable account of the actions of the Indian...
Cobber I think you're referring to the Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918, when US troops from the 132nd Infantry Regiment operated with the 4th...
Annie It could be true, but somehow I find it hard to believe that French infantrymen would recognise the squadron insignia of a USAS unit....
Adrian Thanks for the great photo. Things were grim for the Russian fliers. Their equipment was often poor (no one else was desperate enough...
Annie I suspect that it's a combination of factors: the excitement and confusion of combat, which made accurate observation impossible; a...
Annie I think that it has to be the family - Tasmania isn't all that large a place and the name isn't common. No 54 Sqn RFC was formed at...
Lt T M Bennet was the observer in Sopwith 1½ Strutter A885 of No 70 SQn RFC, flown by 2Lt Morton Allport from Tasmania, when it was shot down near...
Bishop is the most controversial airman of The Great War. The Germans don't seem to have noticed Bishop's attack on the aerodrome, as the action...
The classic book on Kozakov and his contemporaries is The Imperial Russian Air Service by Alan Durkota, Thomas Darcey and Victor Kulikov, ISBN 0...
Lt Leonard Monteagle Barlow MC** was from London, and trained as an electrical engineer. He joined the RFC direct in 1916 and was posted to No 56...
They are all well known names in Great War aviation, and some were aces: Capt Gerald Constable Joseph Maxwell MC DFC was credited with 26 victories;...
Thanks for the link to the site with the drawing of the Supermarine PB31 Nighthawk. As they say, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" - words...
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