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*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/sixtysquadronraf00scot ''Sixty Squadron, R.A.F. : a History of the Squadron from its Formation''] by Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott 1920 Archive.org. Originally Royal Flying Corps.
**[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA366808 ''Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I''] by George K Williams 1999. Archive.org.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland waterways and docks, royal engineers in war time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes mention of Train Ferries from 1917. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes chapters on France.
*[https://archive.org/details/redbattleflyer00rich ''The Red Battle Flyer''] by Captain Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen . Translated by T Ellis Barker 1918 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen Manfred von Richthofen] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
*[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559705264 ''Horses Don't Fly''] by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which was a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross.
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