While it's unseen, I have to wonder about a Great War site that mentions the Luftwaffe, a force that wasn't formed until after the Nazis came to...
You'd expect someone writing in a government publication to at least be able to spell von Richthofen! Sigh Gareth
AC Harry Cobby's autobiography High Adventure is worth reading. It was re-published in a deluxe illustrated version in 1981, ISBN 0 85880 044 6....
Annie Remember that the Internet is global. Your problems are not ours - we have enough of our own! In Southern Australia we're faced with...
Annie It looks like the USAF gilded the lily a little when naming the base! The history of the 28th Aero Sqn in Cross & Cockade journal (1971)...
On 27 September 1918 the 28th Aero Squadron USAS was based at Lisle en Barrois aerodrome, where it had moved a week before. The unit was equipped...
Captain H J T Saint DSC flew Sopwith Triplanes and Camels with No 10 Sqn RNAS, and was credited with 7 victories between 9 August and 20 October...
There's a good account of all eight airmen who were awarded the Medal of Honor in Alan E Durkota's Medal of Honor Volume 1 - Aviators of World War...
Air Marshall George Jones was a distinguished Great War airman too. After service in the Light Horse at Gallipoli and in Palestine, he transferred...
2Lts A G McGillivray (pilot) and C E Watchorn (observer) of No 131 Sqn RAF were flying in RE 8 D4985 when they crashed on 16 June 1918. 2Lt...
The definitive book on the German raids by both aeroplanes and airships is Cole & Cheesman's The Air Defence of Britain 1914-1918, ISBN 0 370 30538...
There was an article by a [then] current USAF Flight Surgeon in an Over the Front journal a few years ago which detailed the various ailments and...
There are two books that are well worth reading on the workings of British Naval Intelligence: Room 40 by Patrick Beesly, ISBN 0 241 10864 0; and...
Thee are two books that are well worth reading on Austro-Hungarian fighter pilots: Air Aces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1914-1918 by Dr Martin...
Annie To add a little to the story, Lt C S Mossop DSC (pilot) and Lt Robert Edmund Horton (observer, from Kirby Cross in Essex), of No 243 Sqn RAF...
To get an idea of just what was involved in the declaration of war, it's worth going to the Gazette archives at:...
The definitive book on the subject is Frank Davies and Graham Maddocks' Bloody Red Tabs; ISBN 0 85052 463 6. The authors list 78 British and Empire...
The best book on the death of Rittm Manfred von Richthofen is The Red Baron's Last Flight by Norman Franks and Alan Bennett; ISBN 1 898697 75 2. It...
After the War Admiral Campbell wrote My Mystery Ships, an account of the Q-ship campaign, It's worth reading - I picked up a 1937 edition in a...
EAC = Eastbourne Aviation Co Ltd. It probably wasn't necessary to explain this to contemporary readers. Gareth
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