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*[https://archive.org/details/asoldiersky00campgoog/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Soldier of the Sky''] by Captain George F Campbell, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. Also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000440235 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_80756 ''Above the Battle''] by Vivian Drake 1918 Archive.org. Royal Flying Corps. Digitised microfiche.
*[https://archive.org/details/flyingfuryfiveye0000mccu ''Flying Fury : Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''] by James McCudden VC, 2000 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This is a reprint, with some extra content, of ''Flying Fury'' 1930, which in turn was a reprint, with some extra content of [https://archive.org/details/5years-rfc/page/n9/mode/2up ''Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps'' 1918. The ] by James Thomas Byford McCudden [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891834 1918 editionor 1919] is available HathiTrust Digital Library, available in areas such as North America, and also [https://booksArchive.google.com.au/books?vid=Wisc:89100003748 Google Books], same viewing conditionsorg.
*[https://archive.org/details/shortflightswith00spinrich ''Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalry''] by "Spin" [1918] Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated the author was Lieutenant G. E. Thomson, the Records Officer of 46 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps , who dedicated the book to his Commanding Officer, Philip Babington, ("Pip Beer" on the Dedication Page).<ref> Resurgam13. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2761527 Rarest book?] ''Great War Forum'' 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/overgermanlines/page/n9/mode/2up ''Over the German Lines and other sketches illustrating the life and work of an Artillery Squadron of the R.A.F. in France''] by "Wings" (Captain, RAF) (possibly probably Arthur Penrose Martyn Sanders)1918. Archive.org. The principal duty of an Artillery Squadron was the direction of artillery fire by “wireless” from the air. Archive.org. Sanders served with No. 5 Squadron RFC, where he lost one arm due to wounds.
*[https://archive.org/details/outwittinghunmye00obriuoft/page/n9 ''Outwitting the Hun : my Escape from a German Prison Camp''] by Lieut. Pat O'Brien, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/outwitting_the_hun_1304_librivox LibriVox audio version] Archive.org. The author was an American who had initially joined a group training in Canada as Royal Flying Corps officers.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027820202/page/n9/mode/2up ''The American Spirit; Letters of Briggs Kilburn Adams, Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps''] 1918 Archive.org. Most of the letters cover his time in training, in Canada from August 1917, and England from January 1918. He arrived in France 1 March 1918 and died soon afterwards 14 March 1918.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924030744688 ''Aerial Observation; the Airplane Observer, the Balloon Observer, and the Army Corps Pilot''] by Harold E Porter ("Holworthy Hall") formerly Captain Air Service, United States Army. 1921 Archive.org
:More about Balloonists: ''The Balloonatics'' by Alan Morris 1970; ''Memoirs of an old Balloonatic'' by Goderic Hodges 1972; ''Looking back sixty years. Memoirs ... Three years' service in Ieper, Ypres, Salient in balloons of the Royal Flying Corps'' by Bernard Oliver 1975 (Details<ref>[https://suitcaseofmemoriessite.wordpress.com/part-one-the-oliver-and-hawkes-families-of-kent-england/uncle-bernard/ "Uncle Bernard and WW1 kite balloons"] ''Suitcase of memories''.</ref>). All available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002554345, UIN: BLL01001700022 and UIN: BLL01002704754. For a further short account by Oliver
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eFJ-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73 "Flight Sergeant Bernard Oliver"] pages 73-82 ''Voices in Flight: Conversations with Air Veterans of the Great War'' by Anna Malinovska and Mauriel Joslyn 2006. Google Books Limited View. Also see further below in this section for the entire book.
*[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://archive.org/details/usairserviceingr0000cook/page/n5/mode/2up ''The U.S. Air Service in the Great War, 1917-1919''] by James J Cooke 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/voicesinflightco0000mali/page/n5/mode/2up ''Voices in Flight. Conversations with Air Veterans of the Great War''] by Anna Malinovska and Mauriel P Joslyn 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Includes not just the pilots but ground crew and others closely associated with pioneering [aerial] combat.
*[https://archive.org/details/millionairesunit00wort ''The Millionaire's Unit: the aristocratic flyboys who fought the Great War and invented America's airpower''] by Marc Wortman 2006. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/noemptychairssho0000mack ''No Empty Chairs : the short and heroic lives of the young aviators who fought and died in the First World War''] by Ian Mackersey 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
