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*[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/warbirdsdiaryofu00unse/page/n9 ''War Birds : Diary of an Unknown Aviator''] Illustrated by Clayton Knight. 1926 Archive.org. The author was Elliott White Springs who edited a short diary by "Unknown Aviator" John MacGavock Grider, and wrote the rest of the content.<ref>Dan_San_Abbott. [http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=948 War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator] ''The Aerodrome Forum'' 20 July 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2019.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_White_Springs Elliott White Springs] Wikipedia. They were both part of a group of Americans who trained in Britain, and joined the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n195 Page 174] ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War'' with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]], above. *[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3488289?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Fights and Flights''] "Part I Armoured Cars (August –November 1914)" and "Part II The "Iron Coast" (November 1914-February 1915)" by Air-Commodore Charles Rumney Samson 1930. Royal Naval Air Service. HathiTrust Digital Library. Possibly not available in USA etc. *[https://archive.org/details/sagittariusrisin0000lewi/mode/2up ''Sagittarius Rising''] by Cecil Lewis 2003, originally published 1936. He arrived in France as a pilot with the RFC in March 1916, age 17. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278559 ''Air Power And Armies''] by Wing Commander J C Slessor 1936 Archive.org, mirror from the Digital Library of India. Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Staff College Camberley between 1931 and 1934. Includes WW1 content.
*[https://archive.org/details/noparachutefight00leea/page/n7 ''No Parachute: a Fighter Pilot in World War I. Letters written in 1917 by Lieutenant A. S. G. Lee, Sherwood Forresters, attached Royal Flying Corps''] by Arthur Stanley Gould Lee 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
