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*[https://archive.org/details/inroyalnavalairs00roshiala ''In the Royal Naval Air Service. Being the War Letters of the late Harold Rocher to his Family''] 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/airmansoutings00bottuoft/page/n7 ''An Airman's Outings''] by "Contact" [Captain Alan Bott, R F C] 5th Impression 1917. Archive.org. Also published under the titles [https://archive.org/details/flyingace00bott/page/n7 ''The Flying Ace''] (better digital file) Archive.org; ''Cavalry of the Clouds''.
*[https://archive.org/details/warflyingbypilot00hend/page/n9 ''War flying, by a pilot; the letters of "Theta" to his home people written in training and war''] 1917 Archive.org. He was a member of the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternssharei00deverich ''A Subaltern's Share in the War, Home Letters of the late George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.''] 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfarehun00bish ''Winged Warfare : Hunting the Huns in the Air''] by Major [William Avery] Bishop, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop Billy Bishop] Wikipedia . He was the top Canadian ace of the war.
:''The Lafayette Flying Corps'' ed. by James Norman Hall & Charles Bernard Nordhoff [https://archive.org/details/lafayetteflyingc01hall Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lafayetteflyingc02hall Volume II] 1920. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/victorchapmansle00chapuoft ''Victor Chapman's Letters from France''] 1917. He was a member of the Franco-American Aviation Corps, who was killed 23 June 1916. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/normanprincevolu00babb/page/n9 ''Norman Prince, a volunteer who died for the cause he loved''] 1917 Archive.org. An American, he was part of the Lafayette Flying Squadron.
:[https://archive.org/details/withfrenchflying00winsrich ''With the French Flying Corps''] by Carroll Dana Winslow 1917 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/wayofeagle00biddrich ''The Way of the Eagle''] by Major Charles J Biddle 1919 Archive.org. He was an American who joined the French Foreign Legion, Aviation Section, who flew in Escadrille Lafayette and subsequently in the AEF.
*[https://archive.org/details/aviatorsfieldboo00blrich ''An Aviator’s Field Book, being the Field Reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916'']. Translated from the German by Robert Reynold Hirsch 1917 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Boelcke Oswald Boelcke] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
*[https://archive.org/details/redbattleflyer00rich ''The Red Battle Flyer''] by Captain Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen . Translated by T Ellis Barker 1918 Archive.org. UK title: ''The Red Air Fighter''.(1918) [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24572 ''Der Rote Kampfflieger''] 1917 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/DerRoteKampfflieger/page/n7 1917 reprint German edition] Archive.org. There was a 1933 German edition with additional text, originally censored, for which there was a 1969 English translation by Peter Kilduff ''The Red Baron''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen Manfred von Richthofen] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
:[https://archive.org/details/redknightofgerma00gibb ''The Red Knight of Germany : the story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's great war bird''] by Floyd Gibbons. 1959 “new illustrated abridgement”, first published 1927. Elsewhere the author is stated to have been war correspondent with the ''Chicago Tribune''. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/richthofen00clau ''Richthofen, the Red Knight of the Air''] by Claud Sykes (Vigilant) 2004 reprint edition, first published 1934. Archive.org Lending Library. As a reprint, part of the series ''Fortunes of War''.
:[https://archive.org/details/whokilledredbaro00cari ''Who killed the Red Baron?''] by P J Carisella and James W Ryan. 1969. [https://archive.org/details/whokilledredbaro0000cari 1979 reprint]. Both editions Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/redbaron00wrig/page/n1 ''The Red Baron''] by Nicholas Wright 1977 Archive.org Lending Library. “Written especially for young readers”.
:[https://archive.org/details/richthofenbeyond00pete ''Richthofen : beyond the legend of the Red Baron''] by Peter Kilduff 1994, first published 1993. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/greenballsadvent00bewsrich ''"Green Balls," the Adventures of a Night-Bomber''] by Paul Bewsher 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingflyingc00rickgoog ''Fighting the Flying Circus''] by Eddie Rickenbacker U S Air Service 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/fighting_flying_circus_1104_librivox LibriVox audio recording] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/explorerinairser00binguoft/page/n9 ''An Explorer in the Air Service''] by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 Archive.org
*[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_0702600008 ''Warplanes & air battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
*[https://archive.org/details/billybishopvc0000math ''Billy Bishop, VC''] by William D Mathieson 1989 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa ''In the teeth of the wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Additional front cover title ''Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service''.
*[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 included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. [https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/americans-in-the-royal-air-force/americans-in-the-british-flying-services-1914-1945/captain-frederick-libby.aspx Captain Frederick Libby] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.historynet.com/flying-cowboy-frederick-libby.htm HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy"] by Derek O’Connor.
*Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
