Further to my earlier post, I should have mentioned that Maggiore Francesco Baracca is probably the best commemorated of all Great War fliers. The...
There are three versions of Maggiore Baracca's death: 1. he was struck in the head by a bullet fired by Austro-Hungarian ground forces; 2. he...
Mine is a Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin, an aeroplane that I've always liked. Gareth
Lt H J Botterell had some bad luck while flying with No 208 Sqn RAF: on 19 September 1918 he crashed near Mont St Eloi while flying Sopwith Camel...
Again according to Werner's biography, Voss is a common surname in the Krefeld area, and there's no connection between the airman's family and the...
The Grand Scuttle by Dan van der Wat (ISBN 0 586 20091 6) is an informative and entertaining account of the end of the High Seas Fleet. An...
The definitive book on Russian aviation in The Great War is The Imperial Russian Air Service by Alan Durkota, Thomas Darcey and Victor Kulikov (ISBN...
According to the latest biography of Ltn Werner Voss, September Evening by Barry Diggens (ISBN 1 904010 47 4) his family wasn't Jewish, despite...
There is an excellent biography of the man (Canada's most decorated serviceman of The Great War) in Barker VC by Wayne Ralph; ISBN1 898697 59 0....
Adrian is correct about Mannock's victory total being 61, rather than the often-quoted 73. The larger number has its origins in the writings of...
There's an excellent recent biography of Major Dallas: Australian Hawk Over the Western Front by Adrian Hellwig; ISBN 1 904943 34 9. Gareth
Good evening Knowing of your interest in the AFC, I was wondering if you might be interested in a copy of the article I've written for the Journal...
I saw the AWM's Over the Front exhibit last month, and it is simply brilliant! The restored aeroplanes and other artifacts are very good, and the...
Perhaps it's worth noting that the above post refers to US Naval aviation. This may not be obvious to some who are new to the subject. The...
In the 1960s I lived next door to a former digger from the 1st Bn AIF, and I remember him telling me that the Australians didn't mind the Americans,...
It's perhaps worth mentioning that while some accounts credit the victory over Ltn Kurt Wissemann's Albatros (he flew the Albatros D.V with Jasta 3)...
There's a line in Franks, Bailey and Guest's Above the Lines (a book about all the German aces of the War) which perhaps sums it up: 'On 8 July 1918...
It's interesting to note that Hauptmann Hermann Göring wasn't popular with the other members of Manfred von Richthofen's Jagdgeschwader Nr I after...
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