Many sources indicate that the term 'ace' for a pilot who was credited with five victories was coined by the French in 1915, when after S/Lt Adolphe...
Annie It's a French-Breguet 14B.2 of the United States Air Service. The Breguet 14 was one of the Great War's best two seater aircraft, being...
I note that the illustration to the referenced article shows a U-boat flying a swastika flag. If the authors can't get that little detail correct ....
According to Over the Front by Norman Franks and Frank Bailey, Ingall's tally was six: an Albatros C shared with Lt C P Brown on 11 Aug 1918 when...
Adrian It was in the reputable Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War by W M Lamberton. I trust the book on most things, but perhaps this is an...
Some 1200 Morane-Saulnier AI monoplanes were produced, but only one unit was fully equipped with the type: Escadrille 156, which operated them from...
Andy The trip to the AWM will be well worth the effort. The Over the Front video display starts at 30 minutes past the hour, every hour. Get...
From Walter Pieters Above Flanders Fields: Coppens became Baron Willy Coppens after the war and was honoured with the addition of 'de Houthulst'...
It is truly impressive, and thanks to the enthusiasm and funds of Peter Jackson the film-maker, of Lord of the Rings fame, who is the genius behind...
Coppens' autobiography is Days on the Wing, sometimes titled Flying in Flanders, but it really only covers his Great War experiences. Gareth
Here's some information on Lt Merz, the AFC's first fatal casualty. Merz, Lieutenant George Pinnock MiD, Mesopotamian Half-Flight George Merz...
Hinkler wanted to be an entrant in the England-Australia Air Race in 1919, and the Sopwith Company offered him a Dove aeroplane (a derivative of the...
Annie Yes, Howden was a major RNAS/RAF airship base for anti-submarine patrols over the North Sea. See Battlebags by Ces Mowthorpe, ISBN 0 7509...
Exactly which German pilot brought down Lt Quentin Roosevelt's Nieuport 28 on 14 July 1918 is a matter for some minor debate. Credit has been given...
They're British rigid airships, and my guess is that the photograph is at Howden. However, I'm prepared to concede that I might be wrong. Gareth
The Rumpler C.IV in Annie's photograph is C.1454/17 of Fl Abt (A) 209 [Artillery Observation Unit 209] which was brought down at Cramille on 24...
The Rumplers were the most elegant of German two-seater reconnaissance aircraft, especially the C.IV and the C.VII. A high altitude variant of the...
Annie Yes, the List only has intials. In the December 1917 edition he is shown as Lt D W Furlong MC, Royal Berkshire Regiment, seniority from 6...
There's no W Furlong in the Army List for October 1916. The closest matches are an A W Furlong and a D W Furlong; could either of these be your man?...
Sorry to nitpick, and I know that we're getting off track here, but Newfoundlanders weren't Canadians during the First World War, as Newfoundland...
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